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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BUNDAHIS.
renovation of the universe they prepare Hash (the beverage producing immortality) from it. 14. It is said, that life is in the hand of that foremost man, at the end of his years, who has constructed the most defences around this earth, until the renovation of the universe is requisite.
15. Regarding the bird Kâmros 2 it says, that it is on the summit of Mount Albůrz; and every three years many come from the non-Iranian districts for booty (gird), by going to bring damage (ziyân) on the Iranian districts, and to effect the devastation of the world; then the angel Burg“, having come up from the low country of Lake Arago, arouses that very bird Kamrôs, and it flies upon the loftiest of all the lofty mountains, and picks up all those nonIranian districts as a bird does corn.
16. Regarding Karsipt 6 they say, that it knew how to speak words, and brought the religion to the enclosure which Yim made, and circulated it; there they utter the Avesta in the language of birds.
1 Transcribing the Paz. svadyi into Pahlavi we have snatih, "term of years. The whole sentence is very obscure.
• Written Kamrôs in Chap. XXIV, 29. It is the Av. Kamraos (gen. of Kamru) of Fravardîn Yt. 109. See also Chap. XXVII, 3.
Or, 'to an assembly.
The Av. Beregya of Yas. I, 21, II, 27, III, 35, 'a spirit cooperating with the Ushahina Gâh, who causes the increase of herds and corn.'
o Or, of the district of Arag' (see the note on Chap. XII, 23). Although no Lake Arag is described in Chap. XXII, some of the epithets referring to its Avesta equivalent Rangha are more applicable to a lake than to a river, as in Bahrâm Yt. 29. Possibly the low lands between the Caspian and Aral, or on the shores of the Caspian, are meant.
• The Av. vis karsipta of Vend. II, 139, where, however, vis
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