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 XLVII, 3–10.
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the archangel ?; besides this, that archangels are wise in speaking, and through wisdom are they archangels.
7. And this, too, about the same words, that the statement is the best-worded which is spoken, or to be spoken?; and the obscurity is not about the sound of the word-elements, but about the manifold nature of the actual meaning (kabedih-i sang-iko), which is the character of the statement, in the words of the epitome. 8. This, too, that mankind guard the soul from hell by learning, reciting, and practising it, and the body from deaths by likewise perpetually persevering therein.
9. This, too, that, as to the first apportionment of the Ahunavair, whose name is the Bakân Ahunavair, when, thoroughly accomplishing it (avavidâr) unanxiously (asûdakihâ), one chants it in a ceremonial, the good work is as when one chants a hundred authorities (radih) of the Gâthas, thoroughly accomplishing them unanxiously +; and when, accomplishing it (vidar) anxiously, one chants it, such a ceremonial amounts to as much as ten with any other authority . 10. This, too, that, through the same apportionment, while one solemnizes the summing up of the first completion , which is the Stôd-yast, as it becomes the rite of one newly initiated (navak-nå par) ?, on that day
See Pahl. Yas. XIX, 20. Ibid. 24. Ibid. 25, 26. • Ibid. 6, 7. The MS. has g) instead of St, 100,' by mistake.
Ibid. 8. The MS. has "unanxiously' by mistake. • Possibly Yas. LIX, 32-34.
Commonly called Nônábar (see Sls. X, 2, XIII, 2; Dd. LXXIX, 4, 11, 12).
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