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, 23-XXII, 1.
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dered (tagido) in search of wisdom and have proceeded unto Frashóstar of the Hvôbas ?.'
25. Perfect excellence is righteousness.
CHAPTER XXII.
Sadkar Nask. 1. The twenty-first fargard, Vahistòisti 8, is about where the best prayers * of the good religion are: unto Mitroo once every night for dismissing and lessening Wrath in the whole world, and a second time for doing so with Lethargy; a third unto Srôsh the righteous, and the fourth is the Dâhmân Afrin? for further gifts and increasing gifts; and the most
supreme high-priests, of the two northern regions, Fradadafsh and Vidadafsh. They are named Spitoid-i Adspôsînån and Aérézrâsp-i Auspôsînân in Bd. XXIX, 1; and the statement that they came from Mazendaran, made in the text here, identifies that country with the two northern regions. The names of these two high-priests are evidently derived from the Avesta genitives Spitôis Uspăsnaos and Erezraspahê Uspăsnaos in Yt. XIII, 121, persons concerning whom it is only stated that their fravashis, or guardian spirits, are to be reverenced.
See Bk. VIII, Chap. XXXVIII, 68.
Av. Hvôva, the family name of Frashostar, Gamasp, and several other ancient personages (see Bk. VIII, Chap. XXIX, 25).
* The appellation of the fifth Gåtha (Yas. LIII) which begins with the words vahistâ istis; it is here written vahistôk-isto in Pahlavi.
• The Pahlavi explanation of Av. vahistä istis. " See Bk. VIII, Chap. XLIV, 16. . See Bk. VIII, Chap. IX, 3.
7.The blessing of members of the community.' The Dahmân Âfrînagân consists of Yas. LX, 2-7 with Âf. I, 14-18; but the Áfrîn is another formula, otherwise called the Áfrin of the seven Ameshâspends,' and it is uncertain which of the two is meant here.
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