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, 71-81.
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the archangels, which is made of gold?. 79. About the terror of the demons owing to the scent of the righteous, and the fear that arose among them owing to the birth of Zaratûst .
80. About the great powerfulness of plants of a poisonous characters for the forcible - keeping away of much adversity; the production of entire species (pur sarâdako) of plants by Adharmazd for the curing of the creatures from disease (ayôyakih); the success of the Gôkereno o plant—which is the white Hôm-in curing, as compared with other plants; and the diligence of Airmân ® in the medical treatment of the world?
81. Information about the ritual (nfrang) through which the violence of the fiend was minimized at the original creation; and the great powerfulness of the Airmân supplication, the Ahunavairo, and other
repairer of the manuscript, when noting, on his patch, the words he had cut out.
i Vend. XIX, 31, 32.
* Vend. XIX, 33, 43-47; no notice being taken of the invocatory passage 34-42.
• Pahl. bis'kihar, Av. viskithra.
• Reading nirügik which suits the context better than nîrangik, ritualistic.'
Av. gaokerena, a mythical tree, or plant, supposed to grow in the ocean, where it is guarded by ten enormous fish, and, at the time of the renovation of the universe, the elixir of immortality is expected to be prepared from its twigs mingled with the fat of a mythical ox (see Bd. IX, 6, XVII , 1-6, XXVII, 4, XXX, 25).
Av. Airyaman, a spirit whose powers of healing, chiefly by spells, are celebrated in Vend. XXII; and who is invoked in Yas. LIV, a spell that concludes the recitation of the Gathas.
? Vend. XX, 1-12.
* The Airyama-ishy8 (Yas. LIV), or invocation of Airyaman, quoted in Vend. XX, 11, XXI, 20, XXII, 23.
• See Chap. I, 7 n.
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