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 XXXIII, 12-xxxiv, 4.
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CHAPTER XXXIV? o. On the reckoning of the years 2. 1. Time was for twelve thousand years; and it says in revelation, that three thousand years was the duration of the spiritual state, where the creatures were unthinking, unmoving, and intangible 3; and three thousand yearst was the duration of Gâyðmard, with the ox, in the world. 2. As this was six thousand years the series of millennium reigns of Cancer, Leo, and Virgo had elapsed, because it was six thousand years when the millennium reign came to Libra, the adversary rushed in, and Gâyômard lived thirty years in tribulation. 3. After the thirty years ? Måshya and Mashyði grew up; it was fifty years while they were not wife and husband, and they were ninety-three years together as wife and husband till the time when Hôshyang' came.
4. Hôshyang was forty years 10, Takhmôrup 11 thirty years, Yim till his glory12 departed six hundred and
1 This chapter is found in all the MSS. : TD adds of the Arabs (Tâzîkân).' 3 See Chap. I, 8.
• See Chaps. I, 22, III, 1. This system of a millennium reign for each constellation of the zodiac can hardly have any connection with the precession of the equinoxes, as the equinoxes travel backwards through the zodiac, whereas these millennium reigns travel forwards.
See Chap. III, 21-23. ? That is, forty years after the thirty (see Chap. XV, 2). & See Chap. XV, 19, 20. See Chaps. XV, 28. XXXI. 1. 10 K20 omits, by mistake, from 'together' in § 3 to this point. 11 See Chap. XXXI, 2.
12 So in K20, but M6 has nismo, soul, reason,' as in Chap. XXIII, 1; the word 'glory' would refer to the supposed divine glory of the Iranian monarchs (see Chap. XXXI, 32).
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