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 XXXII, 1-5.
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is, your race is from there where Evil Thought', as well as Lust the destroyer and also Greed the wellaccumulating, resides, and where, moreover, indar the fighter is the spirit of the religion of apostasy and further deceives the worldly existence of mankind, as to proper living and immortal progress?, and first confines their thoughts. 4. He shall first do this, so that he may restrain the thoughts of men from virtuous things, and their further words and perverted further deeds from the ceremonial of us who are archangels; they further lose their wisdom“, and further consider even as perfect righteousness that which is loved by the demons; they utter the false words and consecrate with the worse deeds of mankind; and with the holy-water which one consecrates most to you, more falsely and more arrogantly than that falsity and arrogance, do they enhance the greatest ceremonial, so that they shall make more of the most. 5. Owing to discord, through that love of you who are demons, they smite with destruction him who shall not be a satisfaction to you in the presidency; and the leader they take (girênd) becomes a destroyer, so in the sequel, too, there is some one that smites him; even though they
i See Pahl. Yas. XXXII, 3 a. For the demons here mentioned, Akomano, Varenô, and Âso, see Bk. VIII, Chaps. IX, 3, XXXI, 44; Îndar is the same as Andar (in Chap. IX, 1), the arch-demon who perverts from virtue and despises the sacred shirt and girdle (Bd. I, 27, XXVIII, 8). With reference to the good old schismhypothesis, that identified the Av. daeva Indra, or Andra, with the Sans. deva Indra, it is worthy of note that he is here represented as the pervading spirit of an apostate religion, and is termed the kushidâr, 'fighter, slayer.' · See Pahl. Yas. XXXII, 5 a.
: See Bd. XXVIII, 8. • See Pahl. Yas. XXX, 4C.
• Ibid. 3 b.
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