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.
renovation of the universe through the control which is in the tree of germs'.
21. This, too, that he becomes liberal to fire ? who shall perform work for fire that is its protection, and so it is taught about it through the obeisance by him whose liberality—that is his through the obeisancebecomes liberal, and whose declaration, that arises as to Vohaman, possesses wealth through virtue. 22. This, too, that this thinking as to righteousness is taught only by him—that is, he thinks—whose petition for righteousness is ever afresh. 23. This, too, that the religion is interrogated 4 by him who is submissive to superiors and similarly situated (ham-gâk) to inferiors.
24. This, too, that the state of the present world (latam manih) for the Mazda-worshipping religion is thoroughly taught where whatever becomes a progress of the religion is whatever is purification for mankind; even for this reason, because the want of progress of the religion is owing to the want of purification of mankind as to the fiend, and when a human being is purified from the fiend, the progress of the religion becomes different. 25. This, too, that pleasure is taught to him who is a friend
Evidently the many-seeded tree of all germs, opposed to harm and called the proper-curing, energetic-curing, and all-curing ; it is renowned in Afrân-vég and grows in the wide-formed ocean near the Gôkereno, or white-Hôm plant, which latter is one of the ingredients of the elixir producing immortality in the future existence (see Bd. IX, 5, 6, XVIII, 9, XXVII, 2, XXIX, 5).
See Pahl. Yas. XLII, 9 d which Pt4 and Mf4 supply as follows:-Aedano avo hanâ-i lak atâs râdo hômônam pavan nîyayisno. * Ibid. 9 e. • Ibid. 10 c.
* Ibid. II d. • Ibid. 14 a.
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