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 I, 3.
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about it, for Gôgôsaspi spoke otherwise than the teaching ? (kâ stak) of Åtarô-Adharmazds, and Sôshyans 4 otherwise than the teaching of Atarô-frôbâg Nôsâts, and Mêdôk-mâh otherwise than the teaching of Gôgôsasp?, and Afarge otherwise than the teaching
true Mazdayasnian religion in all ages, both before and after the time of Zaratûst.
1 One of the old commentators whose opinions are frequently quoted in Pahlavi books, as in Chap. II, 74, 82, 119, Pahl. Vend. III, 48, 138, 151, IV, 35, V, 14, 121, VI, 9, 64, VII, 6, 136, VIII, 64, 236, XV, 35, 48, 56, 67, XVI, 5, XVIII, 98, 124, and thirteen times in the Nîrangistân. His name is sometimes written Gôsasp (as it is here both in M6 and K20) and sometimes Gôgôsôsp.
* Probably a written exposition or commentary is meant.
* This commentator is mentioned once in the Nîrangistân as Atarô Adharmazdân.
• This commentator is mentioned in Chaps. II, 56, 74, 80, 118, 119, III, 13, VI, 4, 5; also in Pahl. Vend. III, 64, 69, 151, IV, 6, V, 48, 80, 107, 121, 146, 153, VI, 15, 64, 73, VII, 4, 136, 168, VIII, 28, 59, 303, IX, 184, XIII, 20, XVI, 7, 10, 17, 20-22, 27, XVIII, 98, and forty-six times in the Nîrangistân. He was a namesake of the last of the future apostles and sons of Zaratūst (see Bund. XXXII, 8), and his name is often written Sôshâns and read Saoshyös or Sôsyôs by Pâzand writers.
This commentator is mentioned once in the Nîrangistân, and may probably be the Atarô-frôbâg of B. Yt. I, 7; compare also Nðsâi Barz-Mitrô, the name of another commentator, in Chap. VIII, 18.
• This commentator is mentioned in Chaps. II, 1, 11, 12, 89, V, 5, 6; also in Pahl. Vend. III, 151, V, 6, 58, 107, VIII, 48, 110, IX, 132, XIII, 99, XIV, 37, and four times in the Nîrangistân. His name is sometimes written Mêdyôk-mâh or Mâîdôk-mâh, and he was a namesake of Zaratust's cousin and first disciple (see Bund. XXXII, 2, 3). The Vagarkard-i Dînîk professes to have been compiled by Medyôk-mâh, but there appear to have been several priests of this name (see Bund. XXXIII, 1).
? Gösasp in M6.
• This commentator is mentioned in Chaps. II, 2, 64, 73, 88, 115, V, 5, 6; also in Pahl. Vend. III, 48, 115, V, 6, 14, 32, 58,
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