Saddharma Pundarika

SR No.: 007677
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: H Kern
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1884
Total Pages: 2546
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 46 MB

Page 1605

210
SIKAND-GÛMÂNÍK VIGAR.
should perform cultivation in that garden, and should keep watch? 18. The Lord ?, who is the sacred being himself, commanded Adam (19) thus: 'Eat of every tree which is in this garden, except of that tree of knowledge; (20) because when you eat thereof you die 3.' 21. Afterwards a serpent was also put by him into the garden ; (22) and that serpent deceived Eve and spoke thus : 'Let us eat of the gathering from this tree, and let us give it to Adam' 23. And she acted accordingly, (24) and Adam likewise ate 6. 25. And his knowledge became such that good was distinguished by him from evil, and they did not die 6. 26. He also saw and knew that he was naked, (27) and became concealed under the trees; (28) he likewise covered over his own body with leaves of trees, on account of the shame of nakedness? 29. Afterwards the Lord went to the
1.So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. ... And the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep it' (Gen. i. 27; ii. 15).
Pâz. â dinô is evidently a misreading of the Pahlavi form of Heb. adonâi, Lord.'
8. And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die"' (Gen. ii. 16, 17).
4 Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, ... “ye shall not surely die”' (Gen. iii. 1, 4).
0 She took of the fruit thereof, and did eat; and gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat' (Gen. iii. 6).
66“For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened ; and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil” (Gen. iii. 5).
? 'And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked : and they sewed fig leaves together, and made
Digitized by Google