Zend Avesta Part 01

SR No.: 007671
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Darmesteter
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1895
Total Pages: 2695
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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CHAPTER XXVIII, 2.
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changing from time to time'. He can always perceive (numerous) bodies like a hundred lights from one light. He verily is Vishnu, and Mitra, and Varuna, Agni, and Pragâpati. He is the supporter, and the creator. He is the lord whose faces are in all directions. (In him) the great self-the heart of all beings-is resplendent. Him, all companies of Brahmanas, and also gods, and demons, and Yakshas, and Pisakas, and Pitris, and birds, and the bands of Rakshases, and the bands of Bhůtass, and also all the great sages, ever extol.
Chapter XXVIII.
Brahman said: Among men the royal Kshatriya is the middle quality; among vehicles the elephant", and among denizens of the forest the lion; among all sacrificial animals the sheep, and among the dwellers in holes the snake; among cattle also the bull, and among
by direct perception of the unity of the individual and supreme, and as various, i.e. in the all-comprehending form.'
'I.e. creating or acting, Arguna Misra. I think it probable that it was meant to go with the preceding words. See Gita, p. 83 note; but, for this, changing' must be in the accusative. It is in the nominative. As the original stands, and on Arguna Misra's interpretation, the sense seems to be that when he is about to engage in the work of creation, he can obtain as many bodies as he likes. Nflakantha compares Klandogya, p. 526. And see pp. 249, 327 supra. Can always perceive invariably obtains when he wishes.
* Cl. Gia, pp. 83, 93, and note i there. ' Cf. Gtra, pp. 85, 118.
• I.e. passion-that quality is dominant in the Kshatriya, Nilakantha. See p. 329 supra.
• Commenting on Gitá V, 18 (p. 65) Sankara calls the elephant alyantatamasa, belonging entirely to the quality of darkness.
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