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of the Huspâram Nask the high-priests have taught thus: “My son is suitable even as thy son, but my daughter is not suitable even as thy daughter."
No allusion has been noticed in Dk. VIII, Chaps. XXVIII-XXXVII, to the two passages in Pahl. Vend. IV, 35, V, 73, referring to this Nask, which have been already quoted as also referring to Nask XV.
XVIII. SAKÂDŮM Nask ? Dk. VIII, Chap. XXXVIII, 1, 2, refer to passages, one of which may possibly have contained the statement thus quoted in Sls. XII, 2:—' It says in the Sakâdum that no one of them, that is an inattentive man who has no high-priest, attains to the best existence, not though his recitation should be so much that it has made his duty and good works as much as the verdure of the plants when it shoots forth in spring, the verdure which is given abundantly by Adharmazd.'
Dk. VIII, Chap. XXXVIII, 3, refers to a passage which is thus quoted in Sls. X, 25:—When an action or an opinion comes forward, and one does not know whether it be a sin or a good work, when possible it is to be abandoned and not carried out by him, as it says in the Sakâdûm that Zaratust has not provided about anything whatever as regards everything, but three times it has been done by Zaratûst about this duty, that is, so that the Avesta
"The very long account of this Nask, in Dk. VIII, contains 4,129 Pahlavi words, from which the extent of its original text may be estimated in the same way as in the case of Nask XVII) at about 53,coo Avesta and 476,600 Pahlavi words.
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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 |