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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DINKARD, BOOK IX.
become thy greatness and completeness, that is, they are thine, O Zaratast! and are boundless onwards from the middle, that is, we give thee a reward 1 so enormous that, when thou shouldst stand in the middle of it, thou wouldst not see to its limits, the width of the earth, the length of a river, and the height of the sun ?'
18. Zaratůst begged of Adharmazd thus : 'Give unto me him who becomes a disciple of men % of the mighty through meditation for the religion, of them who shall produce the actual progress of this my religion of the Mazda-worshippers, and who will also explain the good practices to this one of mine, even the blessings set forth by me in the benedictions they possess.' 19. And Adharmazd spoke thus : ‘I will give unto thee him who becomes a disciple of other men of the mighty; they are thy kinsmen and those confederates of theirs, and thine are their companions and their serfs“, who produce the progress of this thy religion of the Mazda-worshippers. 20. Mostly thine, O Zaratůst! are their worship and their homage; and, through their ceremonial and obeisance, the liberality of him who is worshipped is given to thee, and righteousness for the soul is with thee; also thy life exists owing to us, and likewise thy body, O Zaratust! 21. Forth to thee will I, who am the creator Adharmazd, come in both existences, as assistance; thou becomest worthy, O Zaratūst! through Khurdad and Amûrdad?, both of them, and through the gratification of
See Pahl. Yas. XL, 3. . This expression for boundless extent occurs in Yas. LX, 4, Yt. XIII, 32. See Pahl. Yas. XL, 7. • Ibid. 10.
* See Pahl. Yas. XLI, 7. Ibid. 8. See Chap. XIX, 1.
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