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 XXXII, 8-XXXIII, 3.
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CHAPTER XXXIII 1. 0. The family of the Môbads ('priests”). 1. Babak? was son of Habakht, son of Åtarôbôndak, son of Mâhdad, son of Mêdyôk-mâh, son of Frâh-vakhsh-vindad S, son of Mêdyôk-mâh, son of Kad", son of Medyðk-måh, son of Årâstih, son of Paitiråsp. 2. As Bahak was Môbad of Môbads (high-priest) unto Shahpuhar, son of Adharmazd, so Kad was the great preceptor (farmâdår) unto Dârất 7.
3. Åtarô-pâd 8 was son of Maraspend, son of Dâdardà, son of Dâdirâd, son of Hadino, son of Âtarôdâd, son of Mánaskihar, son of Vohaman-kihar, son of Fryânô °, son of Bâhak 10, son of Frêdan, son of Fra
This chapter is found only in TD, where it forms a continuation of the preceding, and affords a means (see $$ 10, 11) for determining the age of the recension of the text contained in that MS. As nearly all the names are written in Pahlavi letters, the pronunciation of many of them is merely a matter of guess.
* Here written Bôhak, but it is Bahak or Bâk in § 2; compare Bâhak in $ 3, and Av. Baungha of Fravardin Yt. 124.
Compare Av. Frashavakhsha of Fravardin Yt. 109. • Compare Av. Kata of Fravardin Yt. 124.
See Chap. XXXII, 2, for the last three generations ; TD has Pirtarâsp here, like the variant of M6 in Chap. XXXII, 1.
• The Sasanian king Shâpûr II, who reigned A.D. 309–379.
? According to the chronology of the Bundahis (Chap. XXXIV 8, 9), Dârâî lived only some four centuries before Shâpůr II, for which period only seven generations of priests are here provided.
This period, moreover, is certainly about three centuries less than the truth.
• This priest was prime minister of Shâpar II. • Compare Av. Fryâna of Yas. XLV, 12.
10 This name is repeated in TD, probably by mistake (compare Bahak in $$ 1, 2).
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