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 IV, 1-V, 1.
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4. Forth Gôsûrvan walked to the star station (pâyak) and cried in the same manner, and forth to the moon station and cried in the same manner, and forth to the sun station, and then the guardian spirit of Zaratůst was exhibited to her, and Adharmazd said thus ' : 'I will produce for the world him who will preach carefulness.' 5. Contented became the spirit Gôsûrvan, and assented thus : 'I will nourish the creatures ;' that is, she became again consenting to a worldly creation in the world.
CHAPTER V. 1. Seven chieftains of the planets have come unto the seven chieftains of the constellations, as the planet Mercury (Tir) unto Tistar, the planet Mars (Váhrâm) unto Haptôk-ring, the planet Jupiter (Allharmazd) unto Vanand, the planet Venus (Anâhid) unto Satavês, the planet Saturn (Kêvân) unto the great one of the middle of the sky, Gôkihar 3
As the text stands in the MSS, it means, and then the guardian spirit of Zaratûst demonstrated to her thus;' but whether it be intended to represent the fravâhar as producing the creature is doubtful. The angel Gôs, who is identified with Gôsûrvan, is usually considered a female, but this is hardly consistent with being the soul of a bull (see Chap. X, 1, 2), though applicable enough to a representative of the earth. In the Selections of Zâd-sparam, II, 6, however, this mythological animal is said to have been a female (see Appendix to Bundahis).
* Five of these are mentioned in Chap. II, 7, 8, to which the sun and moon are here added.
• As this name stands in the MSS. it may be read Gurgdâr (as in the Paz. MSS.), Gärkihar, or Darkîhar ; the reading is very uncertain, and Windischmann suggests Gärg-kîhar, 'wolf progeny' (compare vehrko-kithra in Ardabahist Yast 8). A shooting star,
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