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CHAPTER II, 9-III, 5.
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CHAPTER III. 1. On the rush of the destroyer at the creatures it is said, in revelation, that the evil spirit, when he saw the impotence of himself and the confederate 1 (hàm-dast) demons, owing to the righteous man?, became confounded, and seemed in confusion three thousand years. 2. During that confusion the archfiends 3 of the demons severally shouted thus: 'Rise up, thou father of us! for we will cause a conflict in the world, the distress and injury from which will become those of Adharmazd and the archangels.'
3. Severally they twice recounted their own evil deeds, and it pleased him not; and that wicked evil spirit, through fear of the righteous man, was not able to lift up his head until the wicked Gên • came, at the completion of the three thousand years. 4. And she shouted to the evil spirit thus : 'Rise up, thou father of us ! for I will cause that conflict in the world wherefrom the distress and injury of Adharmazd and the archangels will arise.' 5. And she twice recounted severally her own evil deeds, and it pleased him not; and that wicked evil spirit
· The Påzand MSS. have garðist, for the Huz. hêmnunast, trusted.' Windischmann and Justi have 'all.' ? Probably Gâyömard.
* The word kamârakan is literally those with an evil pate,' and is derived from Av. kameredha, the head of an evil being,' also applied to the evil summit' of Mount Arezūra (Vend. XIX, 140, 142), which is supposed to be at the gate of hell (see Chap. XII, 8). That the chief demons or arch-fiends are meant, appears more clearly in Chap. XXVIII, 12, 44, where the word is kamârîkên.
• The personification of the impurity of menstruation.
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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 |