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.
numerously, and their disturbance by Aharman and the demons was less. 63. For in their evil reigns, within the countries of Iran, there were not seven? towns which were desolate as they will be when it is the end of thy millennium, O Zaratust the Spitamân! for all the towns of Iran will be ploughed up by their horses' hoofs, and their banners will reach unto Padashkhvârgar?, and they will carry away the sovereignty of the seat of the religion I approve from there; and their destruction comes from that place, O Zaratûst the Spitâmân! this is what I foretell.
64. Whoevers of those existing, thus, with reverence unto the good, performs much worship for Adharmazd, Allharmazd, aware of it through righteousness, gives him whatsoever Adharmazd is aware of through righteousness, as remuneration and reward of duty and good works, and such members of
So in the Pâzand, but seventeen' in Persian ; in K20 the word is partly illegible, but can be no other number than siba, seven.'
3 The mountainous region south of the Caspian (see Bund. XII, 2, 17).
* This section is the Pahlavi version of an Avesta formula which is appended to nearly two-thirds of the hâs or chapters of the Yasna, and, therefore, indicates the close of the chapter at this point. The version here given contains a few verbal deviations from that given in the Yasna, but none of any importance. The Avesta text of this formula is as follows:
Yênhê hâtãm ând, yêsnê paití, vanghô mazdau ahurð vaêthå, ashâd haka,
yaunghămkâ, tāskâ tauska yazamaidê. And it may be translated in the following manner :
Of whatever male of the existences, therefore. Ahuramazda was better cognizant, through righteousness in worship, and of whatcver females, both those males and those females we reverence.'
And of whateve
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