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.
shouldst select this religion of mine with wisdom and also with thought.' 28. This, too, that as to him who has to act with the freedom from effort (a pésitûnagih) of righteousness” and owing to it, for the good works done by him the gift is good. 29. This, too, that whoever seeks by good works, and seeks good works by innocence, obtains freedom from harm (a-n åsih); and whoever is liberal to the sacred beings is free from destruction (a-nasinisno), owing to the liberality of the sacred beings. 30. And this, too, namely: 'These are the rewards I am aware of“, which have been, which still are, and which ever will be.'
31. Perfect excellence is righteousness.
CHAPTER XL.
Varstmânsar Nask. 1. The seventeenth fargard, Spentâ-mainya “, is about this, that Adharmazd produced the creatures through wisdom, and maintains them in truth. 2. This, too, that the best thing for every one is thought in a high-priest who is the tongue of a spiritual lord?; in a high-priest, who has to maintain thought, no appliances of the body are to lie unto the spiritual lord on account of affection for the
1 See Pahl. Yas. XLV, 18 e.
* Ibid. 19 a. All but the last syllable of apësitûnagih is written by the repairer of the MS. on one of his patches, but the word is a strange equivalent for Av. haithîm. • Ibid. 19 d.
• Ibid. 19 e. See Chap. XVII, 1 n; it is here written spend-mato in Pahlavi, and is called the 18th fargard by mistake. • See Pahl. Yas. XLVI, 2 a.
* Ibid. 2 b.
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