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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DÎNKARD, BOOK IX.
CHAPTER LVII.
Bakó Nask. 1. The eleventh fargard, the Yasna", is that the whole of the good works which are to accomplish, and those, too, which are accomplished ?, are appropriated by the righteous man who teaches virtues to the righteous; even for this reason, of the good works which one accomplishes, and those, too, which are accomplished, there is all one store (anbâr), from the work (var'zo) of the original good creation even to the renovation of the universe, and ever afresh the teaching of virtue by those who are righteous comes to the accumulation of the righteous and the accomplishment of that store, and they, too, are in possession of that store, in partnership with the other righteous. 2. This, too, that it is because he would do the best for his own“, whose meditation of the liturgy is for those who are archangels, and who also maintains, for the assistance of the good, the strength which is his for the existences. 3. And this statement indicates the great participation of any one in that store, because when that store is really an accumulation of work on the way, for the partners in that store who have done more, and also those who have accomplished less, and remains, moreover, in the possession of them all, then, as to those accomplishing more of it, through the original possession of most of that work, and also through that which occurs when the accomplishers have attained to that plenty more particularly owing to their more labour, and likewise through the property, liberally,
i See Chap. XII, i n; it is here written yasto in Pahlavi. · See Pahl. Yas. XXXV, 5. Ibid. 4. Ibid. 6.
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