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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FARGARD XIX.
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• Whereat on this wide, round earth; whose ends lie afar, whereat dost thou swing (those stones), thou who standest by the upper bank of the river Darega", in the mansion of Pourusaspa ??'
5 (16). Thus Zarathustra answered Angra Mainyu: O evil-doer, Angra Mainyu! I will smite the creation of the Daêva; I will smite the Nasu, a creature of the Daêva; I will smite the Pairika Knãthaitis, till the victorious Saoshyant come up to life out of the lake Kasava , from the region of the dawn, from the regions of the dawn.'
6 (20). Again to him said the Maker of the evil world, Angra Mainyu : 'Do not destroy my creatures, O holy Zarathustra! Thou art the son of Pourusaspa o; by thy mother I was invoked?. Renounce the good Religion of the worshippers of Mazda, and thou shalt gain such a boon as Vadhaghna & gained, the ruler of the nations.'
1.The Darâga is the chief of the rivers, because the house of ZartAsht's father stood on its bank and Zartûsht was born there' (Bund. XXIV, 15).
· The father of Zarathustra. * The incarnation of idolatry; cf. Farg. I, 10.
• The unborn son of Zoroaster, who, at the end of time, will destroy Ahriman and bring about the resurrection of the dead. See Yt. XIII, 62; XIX, 92, 94 seq.
The Zarah sea in Saistân. Cf. Yt. XV, 66. • "I know thee' (Comm.)
* The Commentary has, "Some explain thus: Thy forefathers worshipped me: worship me also.' Zoroaster's forefathers must naturally have followed a false religion, since he announces the true one.
• Asi Dahaka or Zohák, who, as a legendary king, is said to have ruled the world for a thousand years. Cf. Mînôkhard LVII, 24-25: 'Ahriman shouted to Zaratůsht thus: “If thou desist from this good religion of the Mazda-worshippers, then I will give thee
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