Questions of King Milinda Part 02

SR No.: 007682
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

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DİNKARD, BOOK VIII.
clothing, and place of him who becomes polluted and worthy of death through a corpse, on account of carrying it alone (aêvakŏ-barth râî)1. 8. About how the several precautions of mankind and other pure creatures are taken, as regards a corpse 2 which has become polluted by another corpse 3.
9. About the pleasure of the spirit of the earth owing to sowing and tilling, and its vexation owing to not sowing and not tilling; the blessing upon the sowers, and the advantage and merit owing to sowing, on account of particulars about the nourishment and protection of the religion thereby. 10. About the destruction of the demons which arises from the sprouting, growing, and ripening of corn; and the good success of mankind from the eating of it.
II. About the sin of burying a corpse through sinfulness, and for how much time is the uselessness of the ground in which the burial may be performed". 12. About the power of the good religion for wiping away sin from human beings".
13. About the sin of deceiving by an avaricious person (pasto) as regards what he has consumed and given, and the grievousness of other breaches of promise; the danger, even in the worldly existence, from maintaining him, and the retribution it is important for him to make 3.
1 Vend. III, 15-19.
The person polluted in this manner being considered as unclean as the corpse itself.
* Vend. III, 20, 21 and perhaps some commentary on Pahl. Vend. III, 71 (Sp.) now lost.
Vend. III, 23-31. Vend. III, 36-40. Vend. IV, 1-16.
Vend. III, 32, 33. 7 Vend. III, 41, 42.
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