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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at that time, become aware of their own wickedness, when their bodies are dissipated. 24. About the destruction of the good works of the wicked, also that of their own souls, that of their spiritual existences, and that of their material bodies ? 25. And this, too, that at the time of the renovation of the universe occurs the approach of the wisdom of our sovereignty to that of the best of mankind, and that glory is put on by it through which the destruction of the bad and the development of the good arise ; also the sagacity which exists in Vohûman extends to those who are its friends ?.
26. This, too, that there are those who are extenders of the days, and they are beneficial in the country *; and their custom, where they have arisen, is an opponent of him who is a wrathful person. 27. And this, too, that they shall thereupon excite (lalå vadidů nâñd) a brother and sister with mutual desire, so that they shall form a next-of-kin marriage with unanimity; and before midday they generate a sublime radiance, centred in the face, and trembling passion, and they make the radiance grow up, openly manifest, to an altitude of the height of three spears of the length of three reeds each ; and
See Pahl. Yas. XLVII, 11 C. * Ibid. 11 d. 8 Ibid. 12 a.
• Ibid. 12 d. * Reading as follows:- lala zerkhånd rôshano pavan mîyan rôd bûland navêndako khrós, but some of the words can be read otherwise, as in S. B. E., vol. xviii, p. 395, or with further variations and it is doubtful if the verb is to be construed with the words that follow it, contrary to the usual Pahlavi rule, as there is no other trace of Avesta construction in this section. Neither the Avesta, nor the Pahlavi, version of this chapter of the Gathas makes any allusion to the subjects mentioned in $$ 27, 28.
It appears from Dd. XLIII, 5 that this total of nine reeds would be about forty-eight human feet of fourteen finger-breadths
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