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OTHER DETAILS OF NASKS.
and the Legal was evidently for the statements of the Gathas.
CHAPTER CXCVII.
6. One is that, on account of him who gave the Legal, and is also the protector of a priestly master who is given over to the Hadha-mãthric, and the Gâthic, through which the purity of the good creations arises, one is more steadfastly to aggrandise and develope them. . . . . . .
DINKARD.-BOOK IV %.
1. Obeisance to the Mazda-worshipping religion which is opposed to the demons and is the ordinance of Adharmazd.
1 This is the fourth of the ten admonitions of the righteous Senov about the law of the Mazda-worshipping religion. In the seventh book of the Dinkard it is stated that as regards the highpriests this, too, is said on the subject of Sênôv, that one hundred years of the religion elapse when Sênôv is born, and two hundred years when he passes away; he was also the first Mazda-worshipper with a life of a hundred years (100 khaya), and who walks forth upon this earth with a hundred disciples. This last clause clearly identifies him with the "Saêna, son of Ahûm-stud, who first appeared upon this earth with a hundred pupils,' as stated in Yt. XIII, 97 (see Darmesteter, Textes pehlvis relatifs au Judaisme, première partie, p. 3, n. 2). .
? This book commences with an account of the seven archangels, and, illustrative of the desirable dominion' personified in Shatraver, the fourth of them, a statement is made of the legendary history of the efforts made by the good rulers, from Vistasp to Khusrội Anôsharavan, for the preservation of Avesta and Pahlavi
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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 |