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creator: after the sacred being, the most high, owing to the work of the agriculturist. 6. For every one who eats anything dies, therefore, as regards that person by whose work the life of mankind is established, it is necessary to consider him valuable and precious.
CHAPTER XX. 1. The twentieth subject is this, that it is incumbent on those of the good religion that they continually give something to the worthy to eat, on account (gihat) of that which it says in revelation 3 thus : 'When thou givest things to some one that he may eat, every duty and good work that he performs in that state of repletion become those of that person, who has given that bread or food to him, just like those which he has performed with his own hand.' 2. And if he commits a sin, he who may have given food to him is innocent. 3. But it is necessary that he be of the good religion and worthy; they should give something to one of a different religion only in case of extreme necessity (zarurat), lest it become as a sin.
CHAPTER XXI. 1. The twenty-first subject is this, that, when they eat bread, it is necessary that one should recite
1 B29, J15 omit these five words.
J15 has after its creation by the sacred being, the creator.' The alteration of this sentence, in B29 and J15, seems due to their writers' reluctance to attribute the power of creating, even figuratively, to the mere producer of a crop. 's In the Nihâdûm Nask (see Sls. X, 23, XII, 16). . .
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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 |