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.
44. About the baseness (garas)' and grievous sinfulness of the decree (vigirih) of death, unnatural intercourse 3. 45. About a dry corpse which has been dead throughout a year 8. 46. About the merit of having brought unto purity a corpse-burning fire, a fire burning bodily refuse, or of an encampment (sarây-îko)*; also those which artificers, each separately, keep in use one has to secure, when the work is done, for the appointed fireplace (dâd-gâs).
47. About washing the polluted who have been in bodily contact with a corpse, or moving it; divers preferences as to the purifier, the rite of washing, and the reward of purifiers, worldly and also spiritual. 48. About the shining of the sun, moon, and stars alike discontentedly upon the polluted'. 49. About the gratification of all the creatures of Adharmazd by the purifier, when he produces purification for the polluted and suchlike beings (ânguntaftõân); also his reward 8. 50. About the strength and aid which are given to the fiend of corruption (nasūs drago) by him who does not understand purifying, and yet would accomplish it; also the sin thereof at the bridge of judgment' 51. About the triumph of the Yatha-ahd-vairyô 10 in smiting the fiend and in healing .
1 Both these words are blotted and doubtful in the original MS. . Vend. VIII, 31, 32. Vend. VIII, 33, 34. . Or it may be sar aspô,'a troop of horse.' • Vend. VIII, 73-96. • Vend. VIII, 35-72, 97-107, IX, 1-39. 7 Vend. IX, 41. & Vend. IX, 42-44. Vend. IX, 47-57.
10 The Ahunavair formula is so called from its first three words (see Chap. I, 7 n).
11 Vend. IX, 45, 46, X, 1-20, XI, 1-20 may probably be all alluded to in these few words; but nothing is said about the twelfth fargard. This omission is singularly in accordance with the fact
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