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 XXX, 5-11.
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through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds.
8. This, too, that true discrimination is not for them, the demons 1 astute in evil; and they never truly discriminate whose will is that of Akòman? 9. And about the sickening (vimârînidano) of the patron spirits of mankind, by the demons 3, through the deceit of man towards man owing to the deceit of the demons; and the approach of mankind to evil proceedings on the part of the spiritual lordship, through those patron spirits *.
10. Also the sending of monarchy and the wisdom of religion, by Adharmazd, for the preservation of the creatures; the recurrence of the mission 5 whereby there are injury and affliction for the demons and sovereignty again for Adharmazd, and they possess the reward of Vohuman and what is required by the sacred beings; and the predominance of man over demon, in the end, the good over the evil, and the righteous over the wicked; also about the nature of those who are producing the renovation of the universe. 11. This, too, that is a declaration : ‘They are those, O Zaratust the Spitamân! who shall produce the renovation, they have escaped (girekhto) among the existences, they are
i See Pahl. Yas. XXX, 6 a. · Evil thought (see Bk. VIII, Chap. IX, 3).
See Pahl. Yas. XXX, 6 c. • The ahû, or patron spirit, having become diseased and incapable of true a hvõih, or spiritual lordship, through the action of the demons.
* Reading lakhvar petami-hastano (or petam gåstano) which probably refers to the later missions of Allshedar, Allshedarmâh, and Sôshậns (see Bk. VIII, Chap. XIV, 12-14). See Pahl. Yas. XXX, 8 b.
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