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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CHAPTER XXXII, 26-XXXIII, 5.
duty there is this, too, that the desire of that nonassailant, who is a producer of benefit among kinsmen, among confederates, and among serfs', as regards anything whatever, is accomplishing the will, and is a friend, of Aûharmazd; and the spirit lodging in him is not deceived by him. 3. And advice about distance from him in whom similarity of disposition to the fiend and arrogance are oppressive, and who is scorning kinsmen, a sharp liar with serfs, giving offence (vêshin-dahisno) to confederates, careless of cattle, and unfriendly to the wretched.
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4. About the bridge on which there is access to Aûharmazd, and he who reaches the best existence is visibly, or invisibly, proceeding while offering up (a uzdahân-sagitûn). 5. And the teaching of the primitive faith to Zaratust by Aûharmazd, who remained embodying the Ahunavair (ahûnavairtanû) as the Zôti of the world; and at the time of the renovation Zaratust, who was from the sons of Aêzemnô, is in the position of Zôti of the whole
2 Ibid. 4 b.
1 See Pahl. Yas. XXXIII, 3 a, b.
• Ibid. 5 c.
Ibid. 4 C.
⚫ Ibid. 6 a. It is said, in Bd. XXX, 30, that Aûharmasd comes to the world as Zôti, or chief officiating priest, with Srôsh as assistant priest, just before the renovation. Here it is not absolutely certain whether Aûharmazd, or Zaratust, is meant as Zôti on this first occurrence of the word.
• Reading min A-zemnôân pavan zôt gâs; Ayazem being an ancestor of Zaratust, eleven generations back, the grandfather of Spitama, and the name being variously written Aiazemn, Ayâzem, Nayâzem, and Aizim in different MSS. Another reading is min 3 zamôn khûpo zôt gâs, 'from three-fold procreation, has the happy position of Zôti,' referring to the legendary account of Zaratust's origin, as detailed in the seventh book of the Dinkard. The position of the Zôti is at the north end of the ceremonial area.
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