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 XXIII, 2-7.
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3. His proceeding beyond them, and meeting on the road with that beneficial victor Sôshậns, and being asked by that beneficial victor thus : What man art thou who sittest aloft on Vâê, the longcontinuing lord, so that thou makest Vàê fly, the long-continuing lord transformed into the shape of a camel ?' 4. The speaking of Kal-Khûsrôi, in reply to Sôshậns, thus; 'I am Kai-Khusrôi.' 5. The extolling of Kal-Khasrôi, by Sôshâns, as regards his having extirpated the idol-temples on the shore of Lake Kêkast?, and his smiting the wizard Frâsiyâu 3.
6. The glorifying of the Mazda-worshipping religion by Kal-Khûsrði ; the coming of the powerful being Keresâsp“, club in hand, advancing towards them at the dwelling of that wizard Ges 6; the standing up of Tas, the banisher of strife, and his calling to Keresâsp for reliance upon the Gâtha lore and for union with them; and the praising of righteousness by Keresâsp, and his throwing away the arm-breaker.
7. As to these, too, it says that so those men come together for producing the renovation of the universe who are mentioned in this fargard, and also in other places, and are all experienced and eminent
See Bk. VIII, Chap. XIV, 14. * Apparently the present Lake Urumiyah (see Bd. XVII, 7, XXII, 2; Mkh. II, 95).
3 See Bk. VIII, Chap. XIII, 11. • See Chap. XV.
. Written U, but the reading is uncertain; possibly the name may be connected with the Vesko progeny' in Chap. XV, 2.
Reciting the Ashem-vohů formula, as a token of adhesion to the religion.
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