Madhuvidya

SR No.: 006525
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: S D Laddu, T N Dharmadhikari, Madhvi Kolhatkar, Pratibha Pingle
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 2001
Total Pages: 762
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Literature, & Philosophy
File Size: 17 MB

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MÉHENDALE M. A.: Somc Remarks on Mihir Yašl (X)
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In Yast X, 80 we read
Owā paiti zi haxadrom daide vahistam vorafraînomča ahurada tam yahmi söire mibro-drujo aipi vioisi jata
panrva mašyākålho " With you as master it (=the community ) obtains the most excellent succession and Ahura-created victoriousness, (because in it (lit. in which [comin11nity ] ) the many men false to the contract are floored ( lit. lie ), struck at the divinatory trial.” (Gershevitch ).
Construing yahmi with haxsära and vararayna is natural enough and that is what most of the translators quoted by Gershevitch in luis Commentary (p.230 ) bave done. But Gershevitch docs not follow them because, according to him, in that case "one has to put up with the strange idea that the 'diviuatory trial', is apparently organized by 'victoriousness :'" (p. 229). Gershevitch, as well as the earlier translators, do not bring out the siguificance of nipi in their renderings as they seem to look upon it as a preposition mcaning 'at, in '.
Now there seems to be nothing strange 'in saying that the contractdeceivers are floored when they are opposed by the community which, by its policy of non-deceipt, has secured the best companionship of Midra and, consequently, the Alura-created victoriousness. Next, it is possible to render nipi as 'also 'aud translate the above passage as "with you as master (the community of 11011-deceivers ) obtains the best companionship and the Ahuracreated victoriousness in which many men who are contract-breakers lie ( on the ground ), (as) also in the divinatory trial ( those ) struck down ( lie on the ground ).”
This means that the contract-breakers are floored on both the occasions, many on the battle-field where victory is won by the nou-cleceivers of the contract, and (the individuals ) in the divinatory trial where they lose dite to their falsehood. (3) dvūčina pioc hačimna In Yašt X.84 wc read
yim dvūčina pile hačimna bāla ustānazasto zbayciti araine, yim driYuščil asotkałšő apayato havāiš dātāiš
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