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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VENDIDAD.
28 (64). “And whosoever will kindly and piously present one of the faithful with a pair of these my Parðdars birds, a male and a female, O Spitama Zarathustra ! it is as though he had given a house with a hundred columns, a thousand beams, ten thousand large windows, ten thousand small windows.
29 (67). "And whosoever shall give meat to one of the faithful, as much of it as the body of this Parô.. dars bird of mine, I, Ahura Mazda, need not interrogate him twice; he shall directly go to Paradise.'
III. 30 (70). The holy Sraosha, letting his club down upon her, asked the Drug: 'Othou wretched, worthless Drug! Thou then, alone in the material world, dost bear offspring without any male coming unto thee?'
31 (74). The Drug demon answered : O holy, well-formed Sraosha! It is not so, nor do I, alone in the material world, bear offspring without any male coming unto me.
32 (77). “For there are four males of mine; and they make me conceive progeny as other males make their females conceive by their seed 2.'
33 (78). The holy Sraosha, letting his club down upon her, asked the Drug: 'O thou wretched, worthless Drug! Who is the first of those males of thine ?'
34 (79). The Drug demon answered: 'O holy,
1. In the day of recompense' (Comm.); he shall be rewarded as though he had given a house, &c. ... he shall receive such a house in Paradise.
Sin makes the Drug mother of a spontaneous progeny, as the sinner is 'the brood of the Drug' (Yasna LXI, 10).
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