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.
tain of Dimâvand', which is the direction of Bêvarâsp, and shouts thus : "Now it is nine thousand years, and Frêdun is not living; why do you not rise up, although these thy fetters are not removed, when this world is full of people, and they have brought them from the enclosure which Yim formed 3 ?”
56. 'After that apostate shouts like this, and because of it, Az-i Dahâk 4 stands up before him, but, through fear of the likeness of Frédun in the body of Frèdùn, he does not first remove those fetters and stake from his trunk until Aharman removes them. 57. And the vigour of Az-i Dahâk increases, the fetters being removed from his trunk, and his impetuosity remains; he swallows down the apostate on the spot", and rushing into the world to perpetrate sin, he commits innumerable grievous sins; he swallows down one-third of mankind, cattle, sheep, and other creatures of Adharmazd; he smites the water, fire, and vegetation, and commits grievous sin.
58. 'And, afterwards, the water, fire, and vegetation stand before Adharmazd the lord in lamentation, and make this complaint : "Make Frédun alive again! so that he may destroy Az-i Dahâk; for if thou, O Allharmazd! dost not do this, we cannot
Here written Dimbhâvand (see Bund. XII, 31). . Reading amat, when,' instead of mûn, which' (see the note on Bund. I, 7).
The var-i Yim kard (see Bund. XXIX, 14). The men and creatures who are supposed to be preserved in this enclosure are expected to replenish the world whenever it has been desolated by wars and oppression.
• Whose surname is Bêvarâsp (see Bund. XXIX, 9). . The Paz. MSS. end here.
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