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good; and, when one shall act so, the advantage of spiritual origin becomes more powerful through guarding the advantage from the destroyers. 2. This, too, that, by him who welcomes Adharmazd in his person, apostates are likewise forced to make the religion of Allharmazd progressive ?; even for this reason, because owing to ? the apostasy of apostates being a religion produced by Aharman, they are only able to make the religion progressive through the appellation of Adharmazd; apostasy and priesthood, and the apostates and priests, are fraternal opponents, and whenever the priesthood and multitudes of the priesthood are triumphant, multitudes of the apostates of apostasy perish (aôshênd), and when the multitudes of the apostates of apostasy are bold, the priests of the priesthood are weak; and the priests are superior in power and success when their priesthood is properly limited, and their properly-limited priesthood, toowhich can arise through mankind-consists in the welcome precedence of Adharmazd.
3. About the completeness (spôrikih) of the priesthood in that quality now, when the priests of the multitude are the habitation (mêhôno) of Adharmazd, and the power of the priests of the priesthood has increased, the valour of the apostates of apostasy is smitten, and the apostates are defeated by the abundant splendour of the priests, also their power as regards making the religion of Aharman progressive through the appellation of Adharmazd is fettered, and they keep apostasy concealed 3.
i See Pahl. Yas. XXXI, 1 c. · Assuming that lâ, 'not,' stands for râi. • The passage in the Pahlavi commentary on this Nask, which
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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 |