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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DİNKARD, BOOK IX.
unnatural intercourse are unique in heinous sinfulness.
4. Perfect is the excellence of righteousness.
CHAPTER XI.
Sadkar Nask. 1. The tenth fargard, Ya-shyaothana', is about the complaint of the spirit of fires to Adharmazd owing to seven descriptions of people. 2. First, owing to domestics considering it as contemptible and in an unresisting state (aga ngih), molesting it immoderately, and making use of it with unwashed hands; also the damsel who has introduced fire into the sole of her foot, and the bursting of the blister (avila g); and a weapon brought out into its splendour. 3. Second, the complaint owing to the carriers of fire from that abode (where the provision of care for fire is as a law to them, to that abode] 2 where the provision of care for fire is not as a law to them. 4. And there, owing to the arrival and preparation of the demons, it lay stupefied, like a powerful youth who is feverish and in a languid state; and its cure from that sickness (ayôyakih) was by bringing forward to it their pure sandalwood, or benzoin, or aloe-wood, or pomegranate', or
1 The first two words of the seventh, and last, hâ of the first Gatha (Yas. XXXIV, 1), here written yâ-sh yâsno in Pahlavi in both MSS. This fargard may perhaps be considered as a homily upon Yas. XXXIV, 4.
. The words in brackets are omitted in B by mistake.
* The traditional equivalents of the four sweet-scented vegetable substances, Av.urvasna,vohû-gaona, vohQ-kereti, and hadhanaệpata, which are mentioned in Vend. VIII, 2, 79, IX, 32, XIV, 3,
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