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 XXXIV, q-xxxv, 5.
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CHAPTER XXXV.
Varstmânsar Nask. 1. The twelfth fargard, the Yasna', is about the manifestation of good thoughts, good words, and good deeds by the religion ; the lodgment of the religion in good thoughts, good words, and good deeds; and whoever possesses good thoughts, whoever has good words, and whoever has good deeds, by him righteousness and the reward of the righteous are possessed. 2. This, too, that neither is he, who is not to be born for Zaratūst, an issue from parents who are not righteous, nor yet is he, for him, who is a manifestation of the righteous.
3. This, too, is said, namely: 'Thou shouldst give a glad-thinking desire for a spiritual lord, and an easy-bodied constitution, to their minds, the religion which I spoke forth to thee; so that the greatest, best, and most beneficial of existences , that are those which cattle are wanting from men, are water, pasture, and freedom from danger * ; and those which men are wanting from cattle are also food and clothing. 4. This, too, that that which mankind ought to give to the sacred beings is a power for completeness of control; and that which the sacred beings ought to give to men is ever that which is good for them. 5. And this, too, that thou who art Adharmazd also suppliest it from those sacred beings, and thou who art Zaratást also teachest it thoroughly to that best-ruling sovereignty and authority.
· See Chap. XII, in; it is here written yast in Pahlavi. . See Pahl. Yas. XXXV, 4-6.
• Ibid. 9. Ibid. 11.
Ibid. 13
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