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FRAGMENTS OF THE NASKS.
44. If it be for ten days' march, he takes provisions for fifteen ;
45. And he thinks that he will come back in health to his well-beloved friends, parents, and brethren.
46. How then is it that men take no provisions for that unavoidable journey,
47. On which one must go once for all, for all eternity ?
48. Kim aoshanghau aoshanguhaiti ãstem isaiti tanva, kim uruna, kim frazaizati, kim và gaethahv8 mahrkathem?
How is it that a mortal can wish for another mortal the annihilation of his body (that his body should be no more '), or of his soul (that his soul should be damned), or death for his children or for his cattle (that his cattle should perish), if he has sense enough to know that he himself is mortal ?
49. Anâmarezdikô zi asti havai marezdikâi.
For he is pitiless to himself (he does not pity himself ') and none of the others shall pity him.
50. Blind are all those who, on this earth, do not follow the religion, do not benefit the living, and do not commemorate the dead.
51. Oiuim tad và . . . . ayare ägasaiti, Spitama Zarathustra! aeva và khshapa ( For there comes a day, O Spitama Zarathustra ! or a night').
There comes a day, O Spitama Zarathustra ! or a night, when the master leaves the cattle, or the cattle leave the master, or the soul leaves that body full of desires;
52. But his virtue, which is of all existences the
1 A gloss.
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| SR No. | 007687 |
| Book Title | Sacred Laws of Aryas |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Gorge Buhler |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1897 |
| Total Pages | 1979 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 36 MB |