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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APPENDIX TO THE BUNDAHIS.
since there was an animation of the earth through the shattering — Albürz grew up!, which is the boundary of the earth, and the other mountains, which are amid the circuit of the earth, come up 2244 in number 3 2. And by them the earth was bound together and arranged, and on them was the sprouting and growth of plants, wherefrom was the nourishment of cattle, and therefrom was the great advantage of assistance to men.
3. Even so it is declared that before the coming of the destroyer to the creatures, for a thousand years the substance of mountains was created in the earth—especially as antagonism came on the earth, and settled on it with injury-and it came up over the earth just like a tree whose branch has grown at the top, and its root at the bottom. 4. The root of the mountains is passed on from one to the other, and is arranged in connection with them, and through it is produced the path and passage of water from below to above, so that the water may flow in it in such manner as blood in the veins, from all parts of the body to the heart, the latent vigour which they possess. 5. And, moreover, in six hundred years“, at first, all the mountains apart from Albarz were completed. 6. Albārz was growing during eight hundred years ; in two hundred years it grew up to
Bund. VIII, 1-4 is paraphrased in $$ 1-4. 3 The MS. has avâno, 'waters,' instead of a vårik, 'other' which alters the meaning into, which is the boundary of the waters of the earth, and the mountains,' &c.
8 Bund. XII, 2.
• Bund. VIII, 5, and XII, 1, have eighteen years.' As both numbers are written in ciphers it would be easy for either to be corrupted into the other,
6 Bund. XII, 1.
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