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good religion to perform the salutation of the sun! three times every day.
2. If one performs it once, it is a good work of one Tanâvara; if he performs it twice, it is twice as much ; and if he performs it three times, it is thrice as much. 3. And if he does not perform one repetition, it is a sin of thirty stirs 3; if he does not perform two repetitions, it is twice as much sin; and if he does not perform three repetitions, it is thrice as much sin.
4. And it is the same as this with regard to the salutations of the moon and fire. 5. Therefore it is expedient, in the religion, for every one of the good religion to bring the salutations into practice.
CHAPTER XCVI. 1. The ninety-sixth subject is this, when any one departs to that other world it is not proper for others that they should utter an outcry, maintain grief, and make lamentation and weeping. 2. Because every tear that issues from the eyes becomes one drop of that river before the Kinvad
1 The Khûrshed Nyâyis (see Chaps. VI, 2, LXVIII, 4).
· That is, sufficient to counterbalance a Tanâvar or Tanâpühar sin (see Sls. I, 2).
s Equivalent to an Aredûs sin, or blow with a weapon (see Sls. I, 1, 2).
+ The Mâh and Âtash Nyâyis. B29 also interpolates the Mihir' Nyâyis.
0 This river is the many tears that men shed from their eyes, as they make lamentation and weeping for the departed. They shed those tears unlawfully, and they swell to this river. Those who are not able to cross over are those for whom, after their departure,
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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 |