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 XXXII, 26-XXXIII, 5.
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duty there is this, too, that the desire of that nonassailant, who is a producer of benefit among kinsmen, among confederates, and among serfs', as regards anything whatever, is accomplishing the will, and is a friend, of Adharmazd; and the spirit lodging in him is not deceived by him. 3. And advice about distance from him in whom similarity of disposition to the fiend and arrogance are oppressive, and who is scorning kinsmen, a sharp liar with serfs?, giving offence (vêshin-dahisno) to confederates, careless of cattle 3, and unfriendly to the wretched.
4. About the bridge on which there is access to Allharmazd“, and he who reaches the best existence is visibly, or invisibly, proceeding while offering up (a û zdahân-sagitan). 5. And the teaching of the primitive faith to Zaratůst by Adharmazd, who remained embodying the Ahunavair (ahûnavairtand) as the Zotis of the world; and at the time of the renovation Zaratust, who was from the sons of Aêzemnô, is in the position of Zoti e of the whole
1 See Pahl. Yas. XXXIII, 32, b.
Ibid. 4 b. • Ibid. 4 c.
• Ibid. 5 c. * Ibid. 6 a. It is said, in Bd. XXX, 30, that Adharmasd comes to the world as Zoti, or chief officiating priest, with Srôsh as assistant priest, just before the renovation. Here it is not absolutely certain whether Adharmasd, or Zaratûst, is meant as Zoti on this first occurrence of the word.
Reading min AE-zemnôân pavan zôt gâs; Ayazem being an ancestor of Zaratast, eleven generations back, the grandfather of Spitama, and the name being variously written Aiazemn, Ayâzem, Nayazem, and Aizim in different MSS. Another reading is min 3 zamôn khûpo zot gås, 'from three-fold procreation, has the happy position of Zoti,' referring to the legendary account of Zaratůst's origin, as detailed in the seventh book of the Dinkard. The position of the Zoti is at the north end of the ceremonial area.
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