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 XII, 1-6.
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Sikidây, a mountain among those which are in Kangdez?, of which they say that they are a comfort and delight of the good creator, the smaller hills.
3. I will mention them also a second time; Albärz 3 is around this earth and is connected with the sky. 4. The Têrak - of Albarz is that through which the stars, moon, and sun pass 8 in, and through it they come back. 5. Hagar the lofty is that from which the water of Arêdvivsûr ? leaps down the height of a thousand men. 6. The Adsindôm 8 mountain is that which, being of ruby
1 The Av. Sikidava of Zamyâd Yt. 5.
2 See Chap. XXIX, 4, 10; the name is here written Kandes in K20. In M6 the word is kôf, mountain,' which is almost identical in form; if this be the correct reading, the translation will be, 'a mountain among those in the mountain which they say is agree
untain is, however, probably intended for the Av. Antare-kangha, 'within Kangha,' of Zamyâd
Yt. 4.
3 The Haraiti-bares of Zamyâd Yt. 1; but it is more usually called Hara berezaiti (see Chap. V, 3).
• A central peak of the mythic Albârs, around which the heavenly bodies are said to revolve (see Chap. V, 3). It is the Av. Taêra, mentioned in Yas. XLI, 24, Râm Yt. 7, Zamyâd Yt. 6.
So in M6, but K20 has 'go in.' * This appears to be another peak of the mythic Albûrs, probably in the west, as it is connected with Satavês, the western chieftain of the constellations (see Chaps. XXIV, 17, and II, 7). It is the Av. Hukairya berező, of Yas. LXIV, 14, Âbân Yt. 3, 25, 96, Gôs Yt. 8, Mihir Yt. 88, Rashnu Yt. 24, Fravardîn Yt. 6, Râm Yt. 15. ? See Chap. XIII, 3-5.
In Adharmazd Yt. 31 and Zamyâd Yt. 2, 66, an Ushidhão mountain is mentioned as having many mountain waters around it, but this seems to be a near neighbour of the Ushidarena mountain (see $ 15). The details in the text correspond with the description of the Hindva mountain, given in Tîstar Yt. 32, thus: us Hindvad paiti garôid yô histaiti maidhím zrayanghỗ vouru-kashahê, up on the Hindva mountain, which stands amid the wide-shored
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