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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DINKARD, BOOK IX.
my womb being cast away, they slaughter me; and is no affliction to them when the serpent, the leech (khun-garâl)', or even the foulest of noxious creatures gnaws me.' 3. And the petition of Gôs-adrvan was thus: 'Do not appoint me to a worldly existence and that awful misery, or, if thou appointest me to a worldly existence, produce it for me without life (adzůstâniha), so that I may be without feeling and may want that distressing pain; it is created for the mighty, through whose assistance there is a capability of affording protection to me, even though the Kai and Karap : exist.'
4. And, together with the just complaint of Gôsadrvan, and the compassion of the archangels as to that complaint, there is then the creation of the creatures, among whom the greatest and best is mankind, for fighting and subduing the destroyer, even though joined together with a complaint of wounding and affliction likethat of Gôs-aûrvan,and Gôs-aarvan arose with greater judiciousness than an absence of creation even with freedom from disturbance by the Kais ; on account of the necessity of preparing for the living of mankind through the assistance of cattle, Gôs-aúrvan was produced for the material bodily existence and assistance of mankind. 5. And, on account of little feeling for her worldly misery, the breeding (mâyinidano) of cattle was the arraying
1 Doubtful.
K has ill-passing.' See Bk. VIII, Chap. XXXV, 13 n.
B has 'of whom the best.' • The obnoxious tribe, or class, mentioned in $ 3. After the word 'affliction' K completes the clause to this point as follows:- just as Gôs-aUrvan arose with greater judiciousness than an absence of creation even with an adversity of the primitive tendency.'
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