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

Page 615

CHAPTER X, 2-XI, 5.
33
kêshvar (zone or region ') is also applied to them, and they existed side by side (kash kash)?; as on the east side of this portion (Khvantras) is the Savah region, on the west is the Arzah region; the two portions on the south side are the Fradadafsh and Vidadafsh regions, the two portions on the north side are the Vôrûbarst and Vôrägarst regions, and that in the middle is Khvaniras. 4. And Khvaniras has the sea, for one part of the wide-formed ocean wound about around it; and from Vôrdbarst and Vörugarst a lofty mountain grew up; so that it is not possible for anyone to go from region to region?
5. And of these seven regions every benefit was created most in Khvanfras, and the evil spirit also produced most for Khvaniras, on account of the superiority (sarih) which he saw in it. 6. For the Kayânians and heroes were created in Khvanirds ; and the good religion of the Mazdayasnians was created in Khvantras, and afterwards conveyed to the other regions ; Sôshyans - is born in Khvanfras, who makes the evil spirit impotent, and causes the resurrection and future existence.
· Possibly an attempt to connect the term keshvar with kash; but the sentence may also be translated thus : and they formed various districts like this portion; on the east side is the Savah region,' &c.
' In the Pahlavi Vend. I, 42, and in the Mainyo-i-khard, IX, 6, it is added, except with the permission of the angels' or the demons.
So in M6; but K20 has zadârîh, which would imply, for the destruction of what he saw of it.'
• Always spelt so in the Bundahis MSS. K20 and M6, and corrupted into Sôshyös in Pâzand; but it is more usually written Sôshậns in other Pahlavi works, and its Avesta form is Saoshyas (see Chap. XXXII, 8).
[5]
Digitized by
Digitized by Google