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SAD DAR.
Chapter VI. 1. The sixth subject is this, that of the many good works there are those which, when they accomplish them, obtain great ('hathim) rewards; and if one does not perform them severe punishment seizes upon one at the head of the Kinvad bridge? 2. One is the celebration of the season festivals; the second is keeping the days of the guardian spirits 3; the third is attending to the souls of fathers, mothers, and other relations“; the fourth is reciting the Khårshed Nyâyiso three times every day; the fifth is reciting the Mâh Nyâyiso three times every month, once when it becomes new, once when it becomes full, and once when it becomes slender?; and the sixth is celebrating the Rapithwin 8 ceremony once every year. 3. If not able to celebrate them oneself, it is requisite to order them, so that they may celebrate them every single time.
4. These six good works are things indispensable unto every one. 5. When any one of them is not performed—be it that which, if omitted at its own time 10, it is not possible to accomplish, or if it be that one time one omits an occasion, and another time 11 they accomplish twice as much-one should consider12 that as an advantage, which occurs in retri
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See Sls. XII, 31.
3 See Mkh, IV, 5 n. 8 See Mkh, LVII, 13 n.
«See Chap. XIII, • The salutation of the sun (see Chap. XCV). . The salutation of the moon. ? In Gugarâtion the last day. The mid-day period. . Lp, B29 have "celebrate them on his account.' 10 B29 inserts 'or if it be that which, one time omitted.' 11 B29 has merely 'if another time.' 12 Lp, B29 have one does not consider;' the copyists having
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| SR No. | 007677 |
| Book Title | Saddharma Pundarika |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | H Kern |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1884 |
| Total Pages | 2546 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 46 MB |