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VENDIDAD.
Vairya': 'The will of the Lord is the law of righteousness. The gifts of Vohu-mano to the deeds done in this world for Mazda. He who relieves the poor makes Ahura king.'
He offered the sacrifice to the good waters of the good Dâitya ?! He recited the profession of the worshippers of Mazda 3!
The Drug dismayed, rushed away, the demon Buiti, who is deceiving, unseen death.
3 (7). And the Drug said unto Angra Mainyu : 'Thou, tormenter, Angra Mainyu! I see no way to kill Spitama Zarathustra, so great is the glory of the holy Zarathustra.'
Zarathustra saw (all this) within his soul: 'The wicked, the evil-doing Daêvas (thought he) take counsel together for my death.'
I a. 4(11). Upstarted Zarathustra, forward went Zarathustra, unabated by Akem-mano“, by the hardness of his malignant riddles 6; he went swinging stones in his hand, stones as big as a house , which he obtained from the Maker, Ahura Mazda, he the holy Zarathustra.
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See above, p. 100, n. 2. . The river in Airyana Vaegð; see Farg. I, 3. • The Fravarânê (Yasna XI, 16). • See Farg. X, 10, n. 1.
* This is a fragment of an old legend in which Zarathustra and Angra Mainyu played respectively the parts of Oedipus and the Sphinx. Cf. Yt. V, 81, where the same legend is told in nearly the same terms of the sorcerer Akhtya and Yoista Fryananâm.
• The Commentary has, Some say, those stones are the AhunaVairya.' If one keeps in mind how much the Musulman legend of Ibrahim owes to the legend of Zoroaster, one may easily admit that this passage in our text is the origin of the story of how Iblis tempted Ibrahim, and was pelted away, whence he was named 'the stoned One' (ar-ragima).
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| SR No. | 007671 |
| Book Title | Zend Avesta Part 01 |
| 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 |