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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EXTANT FRAGMENTS.
the passage which contained a statement that is often partially quoted in Pahlavi colophons, and the Avesta text of which constitutes Yas. LXXII, II (Gld.); the first part of the statement, with a translation of its Pahlavi version, is here quoted from Mitro-âpân's colophon to a volume of miscellaneous Pahlavi texts, usually called the Vistâsp-shầhnâmak from the subject of its first text, and written A.D. 1322, in which the writer mentions the source from which he quotes; and the second part is taken from the same writer's colophon to the Yasna MS. K5, written thirteen months later, which is the only known authority for this part of the text:-In one passage of the Hâdôkht it is declared that Adharmazd spoke to Zaratust thus :-"Aêvô pantau yo ashahê vispê anyaêshãm apantãm :-one only is the way of righteousness, all those are no ways :angrahê mainyeus nasistãm' daênãm daêvayasnanăm paragitim mashyânãm ? fråkereitfm :which the evil spirit of the heretical demon-worshippers, the wizard, has forced on to mankind."
Dk. VIII, Chap. XLV, 13, must refer to the passage which contained the statement thus mentioned in Sls. XIII, 10:—The fifteen stanzas of Ya-shyaothanas are for this reason, because it is given for the destruction of those fifteen fiends who are declared in the medical part of the Hâdokht.'
No allusion to the following seven passages, quoted from this Nask, has been noticed in Dk. VIII, Chap. XLV:
In Sls. XII, 30, it is stated that 'in the Hâdôkht
1 Only the first and last letters of this word are clearly legible. * The first syllable is illegible.
: Yas. XXXIV.
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