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

Page 945

CHAPTER XIII, 23-29.
363 28. The twenty stanzas of Tad-thwa-peresa (Yas. XLIII) are the twenty judgments (dâ distân) between the beneficent spirit and the evil spirit; and for this reason they should every time utter Tadthwa-peresâ again', because they should utter the original judgment again, and the twentieth time the evil spirit becomes confounded.
29. The eleven stanzas of Ad-fravakhshya (Yas. XLIV) are made up from the six chieftainships ? and the five accomplishments (farhâng) owing to religion; one is thus, not to do unto others : all that which is not well for one's self; the second is to understand fully what is well-done and not well-done; the third is to turn from the vile and their conversation (andarag-guftano); the fourth is to confess one's failings to the high-priests, and let them bring the whip; the fifth is not to neglect the season-festivals at their proper hour (dên hâsar), nor the other things which go to the bridge'; and the six chieftainships are not his property who has not these
· That is, the first line (tad thwå peresa eres môi vao ka Ahura! 'that I shall ask thee, tell it me right, О Ahura l') is repeated at the beginning of each of the first nineteen stanzas, and the first stanza being recited twice (as in all chapters of the Gâthas) these words are recited twenty times before the last stanza is reached. The phrases and for this reason' and because they should utter the original judgment again' are omitted in M6.
. These cannot be the same chieftainships' (radih) as those mentioned in § 11, of which there are only five; but perhaps they are the spiritual chieftainships, or primacies, of the six other regions of the earth (see Bund. XXIX, 1).
9 Assuming that aisan stands for a îsân.
• The Kinvad bridge, or route of the soul to the other world (see Chap. XII, 31). Part of these fourth and fifth clauses is omitted in K20 by mistake.
Digitized by Google