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 XIII, 50-XIV, I.
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XLI, 17), of which each stanza is three lines; sixtysix stanzas of the Ustavaiti Gâtha (Yas. XLIIXLV), of which each stanza is five lines, except Haêkad-aspâ (Yas. XLV, 15), for that one is four lines; forty-one stanzas of the Spentâ-mainyû Gâtha (Yas. XLVI-XLIX), of which each stanza is four lines; twenty-two stanzas of the Vohu-khshathra (Yas. L), of which each stanza is three 1 lines; and nine stanzas of the Vahistôisti (Yas. LII), of which each stanza is four lines, except Ithâ-1 (Yas. LII, 6), for that one is a stanza of five ;—the amount of the foregoing ’ is 278 stanzas 3.
CHAPTER XIV4 · o. May it be in the name of God (ya zdå n) and the good creation !
1. When they consecrate a sacred cake (drôno), and it becomes demon worship, what and how many things are not proper ?
1 All MSS. have four,' and then add the exception about Ithâ-i to the account of this Gâtha, instead of mentioning it in the details of the Vahistôisti; which blunder is here corrected.
* Reading kadmon yehev û nisno, but the latter word, with part of the ciphers which follow, is torn away in K20, and in M6 it is written so as to resemble the Avesta letters gnngan, which are unintelligible, though something like Pahl. yehevûnisno; there can, however, be little doubt as to the general meaning of the phrase.
* The number of lines is easily computed from the same details, as follows:- 300 + 120 + 329 + 164 +66 + 37 = 1016 lines, as stated in $ 50, and as they still exist in the Gatha texts.
• This chapter is also found in L15, fols. 1-4, and a Pazand version of $$ 1-3 exists in L22, fols. 126, 127, and L7, fols. 78, 79. • That is, it becomes desecrated through some fault in the cere[5]
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