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consider him as your follower, they shall occasion his destruction. 6. You are evil demons for a congregation when they speak of avoiding you, and worse for the ceremonial, or obeisance, when it occurs ; that which becomes all clearness to the utterer of righteousness, in this existence, you utterly destroy ; and the lodgment of complete mindfulness in the body is for admonition to human beings about abstaining from the demons.
7. This, too, is stated, namely: 'Evil are you who are wicked and worship the demons with good holywater and with words; through them the holy-water obtains evil recompense, even the hell that is horrible.' 8. This, too, he spoke, namely : Concerning those malicious demons 1 I will first mention intelligibly to thee when they have come to the world, that is, first when they have rushed in, how their jurisdiction arose. 9. For thirty centuries? those of my world were immortal and undecaying, O Zaratūst! but when the thirtieth century was accomplished , O Spitâmân! the sweat (kh vâe) produced by the demons then came on to my Gâyômard“, for his affliction, so long a time as a man speaks forth these words of the Yatha-ahd-vairyo", relating to the spiritual lord and priestly master. 10. And when he issued from that sweat he was shadowless, that is, darkness had entered ®; and the words of the formula (âyin) relating to the spiritual lord and priestly master were spoken forth by me, and when
See Pahl. Yas. XXXII, 72, 8 a. ? See Bd. I, 20, 21. But from § 10 it appears more probable that these are the three millenniums mentioned in Bd. I, 8. 3 Bd. III, 3.
* Ibid. 19. See Bk. VIII, Chap. I, 7 n.
• Bd. III, 20.
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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 |