Zend Avesta Part 02

SR No.: 007672
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

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DÎNKARD, BOOK IX.
amassed them in his youth, he becomes very pleased in old age: first, virtuous learning ; second, productive wealth ; third, a good wife ; and fourth, a prosperous dwelling. 6. About the five storeholders 1 of perfect excellence : industry, diligence, contentment, guileless understanding (nirikhthûshih), and provision of means.
7. About abstaining from sitting with drunkards. 8. And this, too, that he does not drink varieties of wine (mâê-gunagâno) with the approval of the sacred beings, who becomes a viciously-disposed assailant and annoyer of others, and a disturber kêpintdar) of duties, through drinking varieties of wine. 9. And this, too, that thou shouldst eat that which is your food where there is a suitable place. 10. And where it is eaten by thee it should be lightly, it should not be heavily, so that, when it is eaten by thee, a good work is performed, and there is abstinence from sin. 11. And, so that what thou eatest shall be immortally joyful to thee, where there are poor, provide them a share, and the poor will bless thee; and, as to a poor man who is righteous, the opinion is that his blessing is best.
12. Excellence that is perfect is righteousness.
CHAPTER VIII.
Súdkar Nask. 1. The seventh fargard, Ta-ve-urvata?, is about
Reading gang-dano; or it may be dů zagâ no, 'seals, though this is less likely, as a plural form is rarely used with a numeral.
9 The first three words of the fourth hâ of the first Gåtha (Yas. XXXI, 1), here written tä-va-rato in Pahlavi in both MSS.
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