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which is provided for the sacred beings! 8. About Adharmazd having created water, plants, animals 2, and the law of the primitive religion for the nourishment, arrangement, and succession of the creatures. 9. About the comfort of the spirit of the liturgy of the religion when he who is a man of credible wisdom and superior disposition utters it s.
10. This, too, that the wicked one who does not believe the deception that he teaches to others, which is his through his own spiritual lord, yet, when he teaches multitudes (kabedân), is convinced by it, attains-as the end of that teachingeminence (padgahih) for bare-faced deceit (barahnako fradípih), public falsehood, and disjointed belief.
11. And about mankind being bodily prepared also for the future existence by fire and melted ore * ; in the worldly existence the acquitted and incriminated, as regards the law, have become thereby manifesto, and, in the future existence, the torment of the wicked and the gratification of the righteous. 12. About Vohaman and Ashavahist being invoked? for assistance also in danger from the wicked, and about appropriating the best existence through righteousness alone. 13. And this, too, that a happy coming of men to the supreme heaven exists for the righteous, but no 8 coming of any one from the wicked.
i See Pahl. Yas. L, 6 a.
Ibid. 7 a. 3 Ibid. 8 c; nêvagtâr is written by mistake for nêvagtar, 'superior,' in the MS. * Ibid. 9 b and Chap. XXXII, 25.
* Ibid. 9 a. • Ibid. 9 c.
? Ibid. 10 c. & Assuming that rå i stands for la.
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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 |