Questions of King Milinda Part 02

SR No.: 007682
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: T W Rhys Davids
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1894
Total Pages: 2240
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 38 MB

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CHAPTER I, 8-13.
and their names are that of the ritual of the Gâthic worship, which is the Stôd-yast, with the Sadkar, Varstmânsar, Bako, Vastag, Hâdôkht, and that which has made them Gâthic?, the Spend. 10. And the names of the seven Hadha-mãthric are Dâmdâd, Nâdar, Pågag, Radó-dâd-aftag, Baris, Kaskisrôbô, and Vistâsp-sâsto. II. And seven are Legal, because they are composed for the lawyer (dâdik), and their names are those of the legal, and those are the Nikâdum, Ganaba-sar-nigad, Husparam, Sakådům, and Vendidâd, and those which are composed for the law with separate dedications, the Kitradâd and Bakan-yast. 12. And the sequence is Sadkar, Varst-mânsar, Bako, Dâmdâd, Nâdar, Pågag, Rado-dad-aitag, Baris, Kaskisrôbô, Vistâspsâstô, Vastag, Kitradâd, Spend, Bakan-yast, Nikadům, Ganaba-sar-nigad, Haspâram, Sakâdům, Vendidad, Hâdôkht, and Stôd-yast 3.
13. In all three divisions all three are found; in the Gâthic are the Hadha-mãthric and Legal, in the Hadha-mã thric are the Gâthic and Legal, and in the Legal are the Gåthic and Hadha-mãthric.
For variants of these names, in the order stated in $ 12, see the notes to the first sections of Chaps. II-XVI, XXI, XXVIII, XXXVIII, XLIV-XLVI, which begin the summary description of each of the twenty-one Nasks.
• Referring probably to the bestowal of the other Nasks' mentioned in Chap. XIV, 5.
This is the order in which the twenty-one words of the Ahu. navair are applied to the twenty-one Nasks, as hinted in § 19; and, therefore, the order in which they ought to be enumerated. Representing the three divisions of the Nasks by G, H, L, respectively, and the seven Nasks in each division by the ciphers 1-7, the order of enumeration is as follows:-G 3-4; H 1-7; G 5; L 6; G7; L 7,1-5; G 6, 1. More or less fanciful reasons for this dislocation of the divisions are given in $$ 15-17.
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