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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DÎNKARD, BOOK IV.
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2. The fourth book is matter for instruction from the statements selected, from the instruction of the good religion, by the saintly (hd-fravardo) Atûr-farnbag', son of Farukho-zâd and leader of those of the good religion.
3. From the Selection of Customary Instruction 2 there is this :-Number one is the actual original evolution 3, resembling only himself and not designed (kimik). 4. Number two, the duplication of the first among those akin (kh vêsigân) owing to the consciousness of creation—which is the first—is Vohaman; but it is his origin, concealed from the destroyer, which is the reason of the creation. .
10. Number three is the original creature Ashavahist —due to development among those akin, one out of another—who possesses the third place among the archangels, for the reverence of the first.
12. Number four, the perfect sovereignty among
literature. Most of this statement has been already translated at the end of Haug's Essay on Pahlavi, from a less perfect MS. than B, but, as some of the accompanying text is obscure, it has now been necessary to translate the whole of it to ascertain its connection clearly, although only so much of this translation is here given as will indicate this connection in a general way.
1 Who held a religious disputation with the accursed Abális in the presence of the Khalifah Al-Mâmûn (A. D. 813-833), as stated in the Mâdîgân-i Gugastak Abális. He appears to have been the first compiler of the Dînkard, especially of its first two Books which are still undiscovered (see Dk. III, Chap. last, 9, in Introduction; Sg. IV, 107, IX, 3, X, 55). Dk. IV, V are taken from his statements, as well as a portion of Dk. III, Chap. CXLII.
? Âygîně âmuko vigîno, evidently the name of a treatise compiled by Atūr-farnbag.
That is, Adharmazd. See Dk. VIII, Chap. XXXVII, 14:
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