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.
wide-formed ocean towards that side. 11. The plain of Pêsyânsat is in Kâvulistân, as it says, that the most remarkable upland (bâlist) in Kâvulistân is where Pêsyânsai is ; there it is hotter, on the more lofty elevations there is no heat 1. 12. Afrân-vêg is in the direction of Åtaró-pâtakân? 13. The land of Saukavastân is on the way from Türkistân to Kinistân, in the direction of the north. 14. [The enclosure) formed by Yim is in the middle of Pârs, in Sruvâ 4; thus, they say, that what Yim formed (Yim-kard) is below Mount Yimakân”. 15. Kasmir is in Hindustan.
CHAPTER XXX.. 1. On the nature of the resurrection and future existence it says in revelation, that, whereas Mâshya and Mâshyôi, who grew up from the earth ?, first fed upon water, then plants, then milk, and then meat, men also, when their time of death has come, first desist from eating meat, then milk, then from
Or, 'the hottest there, through the very lofty elevation, is not heat.'
Pers. Âdarbîgân. 3 The word var is omitted in K20. • TD has Pahl. Srûbâk.
6 Or it may be read Damakân, but TD has Kamakân. It can hardly be Dâmaghân, as that is a town and district in Khurâsân ; Justi also suggests the district of Gamagân in Pârs, and thinks Sruvâ means "cypress wood,' there being a Salvastân between Shîrâz and Fasâ.
* This chapter is found in all MSS., and has been numbered XXXI by former translators.
? See Chaps. XV, 2-16, XXXIV, 3.
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