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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but do not accept; that whose Avesta is faulty, but the man good, the archangels and sacred being will approach, but do not listen to, and will accept; that whose Avesta is correct, and the man good, the archangels and sacred being will approach, will come to, will listen to, and will accept; and that whose Avesta is faulty, and the man bad, they do not approach, do not listen to, and do not accept.'
EXTANT FRAGMENTS.
VII. RADO-DAD-AÎTAG NASK1.
Dk. VIII, Chap. VIII, 4, probably refers to the passage containing the statement thus mentioned in Sls. X, 29:-'In the Rado-dâd-aitih many harsh things are said about the severe punishment of the unhelpful ones (avigidâr-dahisnânŎ)2 in the spiritual existence.'
VIII, IX. BARIS AND KASKISROBÔ
NASKS.
No quotation from these Nasks has yet been noticed.
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1 The very short account of this Nask, in Dk. VIII, contains 88 Pahlavi words, from which the extent of its original text may be estimated (in the same way as in the case of Nask IV) at about 10,500 Avesta and 34,300 Pahlavi words.
* Otherwise read hangîdâr-dahîsnâno, 'producers of irritation,' in S. B. E., vol. v, p. 330.
The short account of this Nask, in Dk. VIII, contains 248 Pahlavi words, from which the extent of its original text may be guessed (in the same way as in the case of Nask VI) at about 4,400 Avesta and 14,600 Pahlavi words.
The very short account of this Nask, in Dk. VIII, contains 46 Pahlavi words, from which the extent of its original text may be estimated (in the same way as in the case of Nask IV) at about 5.500 Avesta and 17,900 Pahlavi words.
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