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that fiend, and puts her to flight (hazimat), a sneeze comes because that fiend comes out.
6. Afterwards, because it is necessary, they recite these inward prayers and perform the benediction (âfrin) of the fire, so that it may remain for a long period while thou art keeping 2 this fiend defeated. 7. When another person hears the sneeze, it is likewise requisite for him to utter the said prayers, and to accomplish the benediction of that spirits.
CHAPTER VIII. 1. The eighth subject is this, that it is necessary to maintain the religion by rule (dastûr), and to practise obedience to the commands of the highpriests; and every duty that people perform they should perform by their authority.
2. For it is declared in the good religion, that, if they accomplish as many good works as the leaves of the trees, or the sand-grains of the desert, or the drops (qatrah) of rain, which they do not perform by command of the high-priests, or to their satisfaction, no merit whatever attains to their souls, and for the good works they have done they obtain sin as a recompense. 3. While such a one is living it is not proper to call him righteous, and when he dies he does not attain to heaven, and not a single archangel comes - near him. 4. He does not make his escape from the hands of the demons and Aharman, and he
1 The formulas are muttered as a spell. 2 B29 has it is making.'
In some parts of Europe it is still the custom to invoke a blessing, by means of some formula, on hearing a sneeze.
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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 |