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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with the three codes of the Mazda-worshipping religion is he of the primitive faith whose insight into the good religion is even such that he knows how to discriminate and announce the statements (vakako) of the Hadha-mãthric and Gâthic from those of the Law, those of the Legal and Gâthic from those of the Hadha-mãthric, and those of the Hadhamathric and Legal from those of the Gâthas. 2. Also to the statements (vakako) in the Law-which is superior1 knowledge about the worldly existences-is allotted (vakhto) the worldliness of the Hadhamathric and also of the Gâthic; to those in the Gâthas -which are superior knowledge about the spiritual existences—is allotted the spirituality of the Hadhamathric and even that of the Law; and to those in the Hadha-mãthra-which is superior knowledge about things intermediate between the spiritual and worldly existences-is allotted the intermediate matter (miyânikih) of the Gâthic and also of the Legal'.
OTHER DETAILS OF NASKS.
CHAPTER CLXV.
1. About the purport of the evidence of the three codes of the Mazda-worshipping religion, one as regards the other, there is verbal evidence of the Gâthic from the Hadha-mãthric and the Law, and about the Hadha-mãthric and the Law from the Gâthas. 2. The purport, too, of the statement that occurs is this of a ruler putting aside the commands of an enemy-which are declared, in many passages (divâk) of the Hadha-mãthric and even of the Legal, to be worthiness of death-the purport being in the words of a Gâthic phrase (nisang) that is
1 See p. 407, n. 2.
Compare Dk. VIII, Chap. I, 13, 14.
2
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