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, 11-20.
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sin are, as it were, a lodgment materially in good people owing spiritually to the archangels, Vohdman being more particularly the instigator therein ; and, owing to the same reason, he in whom there is a like proficiency is of like good works with Vohdman, and adapted to the good works arises the like reward.
17. This, too, that the dominion is given to Adharmazd by him who may perform those works, is manifest from the phrase Tad mazda tava khshathrem, &c. and its meaning, which is this:
That, O Adharmazd! is this dominion of thine, by which benefits (vehagano) are given to him who is justly living and poor?' 18. Which is a deliverance for this reason, because Adharmazd created no dominion for the more particular preservation of the poor and the creatures of the worldly existence from the destroyer; but, for the purpose of control over the dominion of him whose strength of rule is the cause of preservation for the poor—which is continually the wish of Adharmazd—the dominion is given to Adharmazd.
19. And this, too, that, through preservation from the adversary, he has assisted his poor who have preserved friendship for the Spitâmân?; the adversity of the creatures is the advancement of religion, by supporting the religion; and a friend of the Spitâmân becomes an assistant of the supporters of religion. 20. About the entrance (dên yâtûndakih) of the destroyer of the creatures from withouts, and the helplessness of the beneficent spirit owing thereto.
See Pahl. Yas. XIX, 35, Yas. LIII, 9 d, and Chap. XLV, 10. Ibid. 36.
8 Ibid. 39. X2
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