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CHAPTER V, 33–61.
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ferent statements of many kinds, the formation of the things of the world and mankind whose particles, and the appliances which are owing thereto, are such as the elements of the body and life, from which ? they are prepared and formed, (48) which are fire, water, air, and earth, (49) that are, each separately, a stimulus so qualified and ennobled for their own operations, (50) that the operation of fire, through its own quality (kiharih) and nobility (vâspüharakânih), is such that the operations of water, air, and earth are not to stimulate unrestricted (atang)2 by it. 51. Thus, also, the operation of water, through its own quality, is such that the operations of air, fire, and earth are not unrestricted by it. 52. So, also, of air, the operations of fire, water, and earth are not unrestricted by it. 53. So, also, of earth, the operations of these others are to stimulate not unrestricted by it. 54. But each separately is for its own operation, just as they are ennobled and qualified (55) by him who is, sagaciously and methodically, a qualifier, a constructor, and an ennobler. 56. And the organization is constructed, prepared, qualified, and ennobled as is suitable for those operations.
57. So, also, as to mankind and the other creatures, who are the germinating of these elements, (58) whose organization of bone, fat, sinew, veins, and skin, each separately (59) without sympathy, one for the other, is visible altogether. 60. Thus, too, are the nobility and qualification of the internal organs, (61) such as the liver, hearts, lungs, kidneys, gall-bladder, and
Reading man aga for Piz. ke vas.
See Chap. III, 30 n. & Assuming that Pâz. dawur is a misreading of Pahl. dil.
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