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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CHAPTER I, 38-43.
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Adharmazd, and accepted from the omniscient creator Adharmazd unmixed freedom from pollution, the comprehensive and also recited acquaintance with the knowledge and work of priesthood, warriorship, husbandry, and artisanship, and the separate portions of the Mazda-worshipping revelation (dêno) brought to king Kai-Vistâsp by command of the creator, illuminated by the great splendour in that supreme sovereign of the sacred beings, and propagated by the learned of the region, in the regions which are seven, through the good eloquence which is owing to the succession of creatures until the renovation of the universe. 42. And through its production by those who will be his sons, Adshedar, Allshedar-mâh, and Sôshậns ', the renovation in the existence of the creatures of Allharmazd is immortal; and a more remindful statement of its splendour, glory, and marvellousness is a statement that is written and found below ?.
43. And there have also been others before Zaratûst, the prophet (vakhshvar) of desired fame in the Mazda-worshipping religion ; for it is declared that, at times, some came from the spiritual beings to him who was more of a leader, and mankind have become as captivated by the solicitation and interrogation of that affair, as now by the solicitation and interrogation of the religion ; the necessity for that period is not now necessary, because all mankind
1 The Pahlavi transcripts of the Avesta names, Ukhshyad-ereta, Ukhshyad-nemangh, and Saoshyãs, of the three apostles expected to revive and renovate the Parsi religion in successive millenniums. According to the imperfect chronology of the Bundahis, the millennium of Aushedar-mâh has now nearly one-fourth elapsed.
. See Chap. XI, 7-11.
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