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 XLIV, 44-58.
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52. About the species of dogs; the worthiness of the shepherd's dog, the village dog, and others also ; how to maintain and nourish (srâyinidaně) them with nourishment, and the sin owing to killing or even improperly maintaining them, each separately; and whatever is on the same subject 1. 53. And this, too, when a dog becomes useless (abôn) or hurtful, what is to be done with it, and how it is to be kept ? 54. About authorisedly killing the dogwolf 8. 55. About the thirty-one dispositions among dogs, which are just as among the three special professions and divers others of five descriptions 4. 56. About the grievous sinfulness of killing a water beaver, and statements (gôkân) of the penalty.
57. About the sin which gave an Iranian to foreigners (an-Airâno). 58. About the sin for those three? males who have debauched a woman
that the same fargard is omitted in all very old copies of the Vendîdâd with Pahlavi version, in which, although the fargards are numbered, the thirteenth immediately follows the eleventh. The Kopenhagen MS. No. 2, in which the twelfth fargard occurs with a Pahlavi version, is said to be a revision of the Vendîdad text compiled in the last century, and other copies of the Pahlavi twelfth fargard have been derived from this revised text. The omission of this fargard in all the old MSS. cannot be satisfactorily attributed to the loss of some folios in an older copy, because no fargard is likely to fill exactly a certain number of folios; the loss must also have occurred very shortly after the last revision of the Pahlavi text, to account for the author of the Dinkard not finding the Pahlavi of this fargard in the ninth century.
1 Vend. XIII, 1-28. Vend. XIII, 29-38. 3 Vend. XIII, 41-43.
• Vend. XIII, 44-48 which detail the thirty-one particulars in which dogs resemble people of eight avocations, three of which are the professions of priests, warriors, and husbandmen.
6 Vend. XIII, 50-56, XIV, 1-18. Vend. XV, 2. ? Reading val zak 3, but it may be val zak-ae, 'for the other.' [37]
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