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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CHAPTER XXI, 16-22.
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are filthy (dôs-hô mônd)that is, dirt (karak) is theirs-possessing holes? (sûlak-hômônd)—that is, holes are theirs—and having appellations (karitunisno-hômônd)—that is, they call to one anotherwe men (vir) think, and consider upon this, that they also are human beings.
20. About the encountering of Frêdùn with those of the Mazendarân country on the plain of Pêsânigas, and disputing with them thus : You are of the Mâzendar country, and I (anmano) have destroyed Az-i Dahâk by the swiftest ruin, him who was a grievous sovereign of every one, demons and men; for that smiting of him I am produced by Adharmazd more overpowering than his limbs made paralyzed by his own enmity, and then you destroy this country of mine, you who are of the Mâzendar country.
21. And the Mazendarâns thought slightingly (sapuko) of Frêdùn, and spoke in a tone of derision thus: Should it be so, that thou destroyedst AzDahâk by the swiftest ruin, him who was a good sovereign of both demons and men, and thou art produced by Adharmazd, for that smiting of him, more overpowering than his limbs, even then we will settle in this place and will stay in this place ; and it is not thou that art exalted, who art an overgrown (kabed-ârôyisno) huge sheep with the speech of a hero among other people, and we would not admit thee here.
22. This, too, that nevertheless they afterwards fled, and the victorious Frédûn pursued them to the
Burrows, caves, and similar underground habitations are probably meant.
? See Chap. XVI, 17.
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