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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ing liberality is produced. 4. Regarding Lake Khvârizem" it says that excellent benefit is produced from it, that is, Arshisang ? the rich in wealth, the well-portioned with abounding pleasure. 5. Lake Frazdân' is in Sagastân; they say, where a generous man, who is righteous, throws anything into it, it receives it'; when not righteous, it throws it out again; its source also is connected with the wideformed ocean. 6. Lake Zarinmand is in Hamadân". 7. Regarding Lake Åsvast it is declared that the undefiled water which it contains is always constantly flowing into the sea, so bright and copious 6 that one might say that the sun had come into it and looked at Lake Åsvast, into that water which is requisite for restoring the dead in the renovation of the universe. 8. Lake Husru? is within fifty 8
The province of Khvârizem was between the Aral and Caspian, along the ancient course of the Oxus (see Chap. XVII, 5). This lake has been identified with the Aral.
• Av. ashis vanguhi, 'good rectitude,' personified as a female angel whose praises are celebrated in the Ashi Yast; in later times she has been considered as the angel dispensing wealth and possessions. She is also called Ard (Av. areta, which is synonymous with asha), see Chap. XXVII, 24.
The · Frazdânava water' of Âbân Yt. 108 and Farhang-i Oîmkhadûk, p. 17. Justi identifies it with the Âb-istâdah ('standing water ') lake, south of Ghaznî. It is here represented as a salt lake.
* K20 adds, they say. This lake cannot be the spring Zarînmand of Chap. XX, 34
• Pâz. avnasti transcribed into Pahlavi is avinastag, 'unspoiled,' the equivalent of Av, anâhita in Yas. LXIV, 1, 16, Visp. I, 18.
• K20 has 'glorious' as a gloss to 'copious.'
? The Av. Haosravangha of Sîroz. 9, the lake which is named Husravau' of Zamyâd Yt. 56. It may be either Lake Van or Lake Sevan, which are nearly equidistant from Lake Urumiyah.
* M6 has four leagues.'
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