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DINKARD, BOOK IX.
doers, and all powerful and brave; and they shall produce the renovation through a desire for an existence undecaying, immortal, hungerless, and thirstless for ever and everlasting.
8. It is perfect excellence that is righteousness.
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CHAPTER XXIV.
1. Of the Varstmânsar1 there are twenty-three fargards, and the first is the Aêthrapaitis 2, on the asking of Zaratust, by Maidôk-mâh 3, about the nature of the birth of Zaratust, and his coming to the religion. 2. And the reply of Zaratust about the combative coming together of the life-causing and death-causing spirits at his birth. 3. This, too, that when the fellow-villagers of her who bore him saw his head
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1 The second of the Nasks and third of the Gâthic division (see Bk. VIII, Chap. I, 9, 12). It is a second commentary on the Gâthas, devoting a fargard to each hâ of the Gâthas and to each Gâthic formula, as in the Sûdkar Nask, but beginning with an extra fargard about the birth and calling of Zaratust. Its chief object appears to be the quotation of texts, both from the Gâthas and from sources no longer known.
2 Here written asrapâîtôs (B) and asrapâîtis (K) in Pahlavi, which, no doubt, stand for Av. aêthrapaitis, Pers. hêrbad, 'a Zoroastrian priest.' This name may either refer to the general subject of the fargard, or have been the first word of its Avesta text; as it seems not intended to quote any section of the Yasna, although the guardian spirits of the priests are reverenced in Yas. XXVI, 7, 8, before commencing the recitation of the Gâthas.
Av. Maidhyô-maungha; he was first cousin of Zaratust, and also his first disciple (see Bd. XXXII, 2, 3; Zs. XI, 10 n).
B has at the birth of his life.'
B has ham-visagîh, K ham-disagîh.
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Assuming that vagâno stands for vagdâ no, which word occurs in § 4, according to K.
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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 |