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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DÎNKARD, BOOK VIII. harm owing to those who are irregular and illobservant, through being inclined for that irregularity and ill-observance, would become an oppressive presidence (padgahih) of the demons over the creatures; also the vice of clamorous talking (drayân gôgih) and the damage owing thereto, and the pleasure of the demons due to the same and other things which are irregular. 37. Advice about the reason, habit, and primitive practice of not chattering, and other good customs, during eating and drinking; the gratification of the sacred beings owing to that primitive practice of good customs by mankind, and the unself-devoting (a-khvês-dak) is he who is not maintaining it.
38. Through the ceremonial of which sacred being is the greater welcome (mâhmânotarih) of a high-priest and of any good work of each one of the five periods of the day and night; the reward and advantage owing to celebrating the ceremony of each of them separately in its own period, and also other means and regulations in the same statement.
39. It is righteousness that is perfect excellence.
CHAPTER XLIV. 1. The Vendidad? contains particulars of Adharmazd having produced the pleasure of mankind by
1 Whereby the devotions are disturbed, or rendered ineffectual.
* Corresponding to the nineteenth word, driguby, in the Ahunavair, according to B. P. Riv.; but it is the twentieth Nask in other Rivayats. In the Dînkard its name is semi-Zvâris, either Gvid-shêdâ-dâd or Vîk-shêda-dâd, the Av, dâta vidaêva, law opposed to the demons. In the Rivâyats it is called Gud-devdâd, Vendidad, or Vîndâd, and is stated to consist of twenty-two kardah, or fargards, the number it still contains. It is generally considered that the Vendîdad now extant is a collection of frag
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