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 XLIII, 37-XLIV, 7.
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that place where they specially make a residence, and the advantage from the same production! 2. About the formation of sixteen perfect places specially enumerated, and also the adversity which has happened to each separately2.
3. About Adharmazd's disclosing the religion first among mankind to Yim 3; its non-acceptance by Yim owing to attachment (asrûnõih) to the religion of the ancients; and the acceptance of other things to develope, extend, and improve the world therebyt. 4. About the reason of the needfulness of making the enclosure that Yim made (var-i Yim kard), the command and instruction by Adharmazd to Yim, the making by Yim just as Adharmazd commanded and instructed, and whatever is on the same subject.
5. About what the comfort of the spirit of the earth is most owing to, what its discomfort is more particularly owing to, and from what its greatest gratification has arisen.
6. About the sin of pollution owing to carrying a corpse by a single person, relating, however, to that which a dog has not seen? 7. About the food,
ments, but it is evident, from the close correspondence between the author's description and the present contents, that this fragmentary state of the text existed in his time, and there is every probability that any mutilation that exists in the text occurred before Sasanian times. The author, however, sometimes omits to mention subjects that are repeated, so it is just possible that some of these repetitions are of later date. He also makes no allusion to the twelfth fargard (see $ 51 n). 1 Vend. I, 1, 2 (W.).
2 Vend. I, 3-20. * See Chap. XIII, 6-8. 4 Vend. II, 1-19. 6 Vend. II, 22-43.
6 Vend. III, 1-13, 22, 23, 34. 7 Vend. III, 14; the latter clause referring to the commentary on Pahl. Vend. III, 48 (Sp.).
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