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VII KANDA, 2 ADHYAYA, I BRAHMANA, 5. 319
the sacred work; and thus indeed the middle is completed, after the two ends have been completed.
THE ALTAR OF NIRRITI.
SECOND ADHYAYA. FIRST BRAHMANA.
1. They now take the Nirriti (bricks) from there. For, having built the Gârhapatya, the gods then ascended it, the Gârhapatya being this (earth-) world, it is this world they ascended after completing it. They saw nothing but darkness not to be seen through.
2. They said, 'Think ye upon this, how we may dispel that darkness, evil!' They said, 'Meditate ye (ketay)!'—whereby indeed they said, 'Seek ye to build an altar (kitim)!'-'Seek ye so that we may dispel that darkness, evil!'
3. Whilst meditating, they saw those Nirviti bricks; they piled them up, and by them dispelled that darkness, evil; for Nirriti (corruption, or destruction) is evil; and inasmuch as by them they dispelled Nirriti, evil, these are Nirviti's (bricks).
4. Now that same thing which the gods did, is done here: even now that darkness, that evil, has indeed been dispelled by the gods themselves; but when he now does this, it is because he thinks, 'I must do what the gods did.' And, besides, he removes, by means of these (bricks), whatever evil, whatever corruption there is; and because he removes by them evil, corruption (nirviti), therefore these are Nirviti's (bricks).
5. And, again, why they take these (bricks) of Nirviti; when the gods restored the relaxed Pragâpati, they cast him as seed into the fire-pan, the
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| SR No. | 007681 |
| Book Title | Questions of King Milinda Part 01 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | T W Rhys Davids |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1890 |
| Total Pages | 2695 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 47 MB |