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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BAHMAN YAST.
CHAPTER I. o. May the gratification of the creator Adharmazd, the beneficent, the developer, the splendid, and glorious, and the benediction of the archangels, which constitute the pure, good religion of the Mazdayasnians, be vigour of body, long life, and prosperous wealth for him whose writing I am".
1. As? it is declared by the Stadgar Nasks that
Or, possibly, for whom I am written,' the meaning of man yektîbûnîhêm being not quite clear. In fact, the construction of the whole of this initial benediction is rather obscure.
It is possible that this is to be read in connection with Chap. II, 1, with the meaning that as it is declared by the Stadgar Nask that Zaratûst asked for immortality from Adharmazd, so in the Vohûman Yast commentary it is declared that he asked for it a second time. This introductory chapter is altogether omitted in both the Paz. MSS. which have been examined, but it is given in the Pers. version. It is also omitted in the epitome of the Bahman Yast contained in the Dabistân (see Shea's translation, vol. i. pp. 264-271).
* This was the first nask or 'book' of the complete Mazdayasnian literature, according to the Dînkard, which calls it Sadkar; but according to the Dîni-vągarkard and the Rivâyats it was the second nask, called Stadgar or Istâdgar. For its contents, as given by the Dînî-vagarkard (which agrees with the account in the Rivâyats), see Haug's Essays, p. 126. In the Dînkard, besides a short description of this Nask, given in the eighth book, there is also a detailed account of the contents of each of its fargards, or chapters, occupying twenty-five quarto pages of twenty-two lines each, in the ninth book. From this detailed statement it appears
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