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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PAHLAVI TEXTS.
References to Z's conference with Ahura Mazda, and his rejection
of the demons, in Yas. XII, 5, 6. The demons attempt to destroy Z., and to tempt him, but are
repelled by recitations, in Vd. XIX, 1-10. Commentary on the Ahunavair, in Yas. XIX. Z. converses with Haoma, in Yas. IX, 1-16. Fate of the soul after death revealed to Z., in Vd. XIX, 26–34. Z. is taught various spells, in Yt. XIV, 34-38. He prays that he may convert the queen Hutaosa, in Yt. IX, 26;
XVII, 46. References to the battle with Aregad-aspa, in Yt. V, 109, 113,
116, 117; IX, 30; XVII, 50, 51. Z!'s reply to Frashaostra regarding the ritual, in Yas. LXXI,
I-11. There are also other references to Kava-Vîstâspa, Frashaostra,
Gâmâspa, Pourukistâ, Maidhyômau, the Haêkadaspas, Spitamas, and Saoshyants. And the Fravashis of all the righteous persons receive homage in Yt. XIII. Of the unbelievers, the Karapans and Kavis are mentioned several times in the Gathas and Yasts, including the Hôm Yast; and the Usikhsh once in the Gathas.
31. So far as these references in the Avesta extend, they agree with the Pahlavi versions of the legends, and occasionally state some further particulars. We may, therefore, safely conclude that these Pahlavi versions present a fairly complete view of the Zoroastrian legends current in Sâsânian times. But we have another means of testing this conclusion more fully in the Persian Zartustnâmah, translated by Eastwick in the Appendix to The Parsi Religion, as contained in the Zand-Avasta, by John Wilson, D.D. (Bombay : 1843).
32. This Zartust-nâmah contains 1570 Persian couplets, composed by Zartust Bahrâm Pazdû, apparently at the ancient city of Raî, and finished on August 12, 1278. But Eastwick's English translation was made from a good MS. of this poem, written by Dastûr Barzû Qiyâmu-d-dîn (=Kâmdîn) in 1636, belonging to the Wilson Collection and now in the library of Lord Crawford at Wigan. Zartust Bahrâm relates how a priest of Raî, named KaiKâûs, son of Kai-Khusrô, showed him an old Pahlavi MS.
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