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 1, 7-11, 3.
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Adharmazd a second time, and spoke thus : 'I am Zaratust, more righteous and more efficient among these thy creatures, Ocreator! when thou shalt make me immortal, as the tree opposed to harm ?, and Gôpatshah, Gôst-i Fryân, and Kitrôk-miyân son of Viståsp, who is Pêshyôtand, were made 3. 2. When thou shalt make me immortal they in thy good religion will believe that the upholder of religion, who receives from Adharmazd his pure and good religion of the Mazdayasnians, will become immortal; then those men will believe in thy good religion.'
3. Adharmazd spoke 4 thus : When I shall make thee immortal, O Zaratûst the Spitâmân! then Tär-i Brådarvash the Karaps will become immortal, and
itself, but merely an epitome of it. The Pâr. MSS. which have been examined, begin with this chapter.
i Or, when I shall become;' the verb is omitted by mistake in
K20.
9 Three of these immortals are mentioned in Bund. XXIX, 5, and Gôst-i Fryân is included in a similar enumeration in Dad. (Reply 89). The tale of Gôst-i Fryân (Av. Yðistô yê Fryananām, of Âbån Yt. 81 and Fravardîn Yt. 120) has been published with • The Book of Arda-Vîraf,' ed. Hoshangji and Haug
Or, became;' most of this verb is torn off in K20. • The verb is placed before its nominative in the Pahlavi text, both here and in most similar sentences, which is an imitation of the Avesta, due probably to the text being originally translated from an Avesta book now lost, or, at any rate, to its author's wish that it might appear to be so translated. In such cases of inverted construction, when the verb is in a past tense, the Pahlavi idiom often requires a pronominal suffix, corresponding to the nominative, to be added to the first word in the sentence; thus, gûftos Adharmazd, or afas güft Allharmazd, does not mean 'Adharmazd spoke to him (or said it),' but merely Adharmazd spoke' (lit. it was said by him, Allharmazd').
According to an untranslated passage in the Selections of Zâd-sparam, mentioned in the note on p. 187, this is the name of
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