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even this :—He who is a good ruler is a desire and bringing on of fortune for me (valam)? 3. All rulers also for the world have arisen for their own, and for maintaining him who is high-priest; they are submissive, and any one accomplishing their commands—which are putting aside the commands of their enemy-is, owing to their submissiveness, authorisedly maintaining his own person and wealth in the world thereby, and in the world there is no place, nor yet a share of anything therefrom, on account of which he becomes offended by the world.
4. The evidence of the Hadha-mãthric and of the Legal about a Gâthic statement is the purport of these words in a Gâthic phrase, that 'not for him who is rightly proceeding is there further ruin?;' and the evidence from the Hadha-mãthric is even this which states that 'rectitude assists a man like a regiment a thousand strong 3;' also for the proportion of rectitude in his possession there is no disturbance whatever, and from the hurtful (vinâsigânð) from without he is thus protected, because fully-worshipping (půr-yazân) performance is freedom from danger from the want of freedom from wickedness (a-adarvandih) of the enemy, as regards benefit, through the doing of injury by him.
5. And on account of the superior knowledge of the spiritual existence, moreover, for the Gathas, above the intermediate Hadha-mãthric and the lower knowledge of the Law, the purpose of the Gathic was for the statements of the Legal and the Hadhamãthric, and the provision of the Hadha-mãthric
1 Pahl. Yas. L, I a. s Dk. IX, Chap. XX, 4.
· Pahl. Yas. XXIX, 5 C.
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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 |