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YASNA XLVI.
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(forth) with the generous helpers', with those whom we are praying for as for salvation to the land. Go thou where Piety joins hand in hand with the Righteous Order, where are the wished-for Realms of Good Mind, where Mazda in His most honoured 2 home abides,
17. Where in your measured verse 3 I will declare aloud (the praises), not in unmeasured lines, Gâmâspa Hvôgva! but songs of homage (will I weave) with ever gained Obedience in offering. (And unto Mazda) will I chant them, yea, to Him who will discern aright what things are lawful (or) unlawful* (which I thus do, or utter), and with His wonder-working thoughts of Righteousness (attend).
18. (For) whosoever (offers) sanctity to me, to him shall be the best gifts whatsoever. Yea, of my
*Ar(e)dra seems to be especially applied, and might be left unrendered.
? I see no impossibility whatever in such a rendering, literally in his choice-abode;' so also the Pahlavi indicates : tamman aigh A dharmazd pavan kamak dên demano ketrûnêd. The question is of going' and 'dwelling,' and the meaning abode' is quite in point. As to var, see îstâ khshathrâ; and compare mazdavarâ. Aside from this, vardmãm=in blessing.
3 The Pahlavi again, with its followers, gives us our first hint at the general meaning here. What else can his padmân and apadmânîk mean, but the regularity, that is, the rhythm and cadence of the words?
• Dâthemkâ adâthemka would be the truth and the heresy' in general.
• If mantû is taken as an instrumental, (can it be an act. imper.?) vistâ might occupy the place of a preterit, but it looks far more like a participle, and might be regarded as forming a compositum with vahmeng. Supply the dat.(?) pers. pron. understood before yo.
• The alteration to yaus, considered as an aorist, has long circulated, but seems now, like so many of the bolder conceptions, to be given up. Yaos is the sister word of the Vedic yos, and
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| SR No. | 007672 |
| Book Title | Zend Avesta Part 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | James Darmesteter |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1883 |
| Total Pages | 2221 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 41 MB |