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CHAPTER XLV, II-XLVII, 2.
pletely shattered. 4. And up the dead are arrayed by it; through its assistance they give life back unto the body, and the embodied life they then possess is such that they do not die.'
5. It is perfect is the excellence of righteousness; it is perfect excellence that is righteousness.
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CHAPTER XLVII.
Bako Nask.
1. Propitiation for the creator Aûharmazd and all angels.
2. The first of the twenty-two fargards of the Bakŏ is the Ahunavair2 of the Bakân3, about the production by Aûharmazd, before every creation apart from the archangel, and on the solicitation of
1 The third of the Nasks and fourth of the Gâthic division (see Bk. VIII, Chap. I, 9, 12). It is an analytical commentary upon the Gâthas and the texts associated with them in the two preceding Nasks, devoting a separate fargard to each hâ, and selecting very short phrases, or portions (Av. bagha), for explanation and comment; so short that it is usually difficult to identify them in their Pahlavi disguise. The first three fargards are still extant in Yas. XIX-XXI, and a translation of their Pahlavi versions will be found in the Nask Fragments at the end of this volume; but whether the Pahlavi versions, consulted by the writer of the Dînkard, were identical with those in the present Yasna is uncertain.
? The name of the Yathâ-ahu-vairyô formula (see Bk. VIII, Chap. I, 7). This fargard is still extant in Yas. XIX.
That is, of the apportionments,' or 'of those analyzed.'
Possibly the archangel Vohuman, the first of the creatures, may be meant; although the Bundahis places his creation after the recitation of the Ahunavair (see Bd. I, 21-23).
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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 |