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DINKARD, BOOK IX.
CHAPTER XXI.
Sadkar Nask. 1. The twentieth fargard, Vohd-khshathrem?, is about the oppressive actions of the sovereignty which Dahâk exercised over the earth of seven regions, and the forward progress of his commands owing to a surrounding of terrors.
2. About Dahak's enquiry of the members of the assembly, regarding the reason of the affliction of the collected people, after the cutting up of Yim s and the accession (kh ûdâyih) of Dahâk; and the people's saying, in reply to Dahâk, that Yim had kept away want and destitution, hunger and thirst, decay and death, lamentation and weeping from the world, besides the cold and heat of the immoderate mingling of the demon with mankind. 3. And this, too, that* 'a giver of comfort was Yim—that is, those things were produced by him which are the comfort of mankind—and he was a giver of desire for them, so that his happiness was through the gratification produced—that is, mankind gratified him through virtue. 4. And Aůdak 5, who made
1 The first two words of the fourth Gatha (Yas. LI, 1), here written vohûk - khshatar (B) and vôhû k-khshatar (K) in Pahlavi.
? See Bk. VIII, Chap. XIII, 8.
: As mentioned in Yt. XIX, 46; Bd. XVII, 5 ( when Yim was cut up by them the fire Frôbak saves the glory of Yim from the hand of Dahâk') and XXXI, 5. Regarding Yim see Bk. VIII, Chap. XIII, 6-8.
• What follows, as far as the end of § 7, appears to be quoted verbatim from the original Pahlavi text of the Nask.
* The demon Uda who tries to make people talk when they ought to be silent (Bd. XXVIII, 19), and who seems to be identified
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| SR No. | 007682 |
| Book Title | Questions of King Milinda Part 02 |
| 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 |