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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DÎNKARD, BOOK VII.
district, they did not become satisfied; so the father ordered the girl to go to Padiragtarâspô ", the father of a family in the country (mata) of the Spitâmas, in the district (radastak) of Alâk; and the girl obeyed the command of her father. 10. That disturbance which the demons caused, with evil intention, for the expatriation of that girl, the sacred beings assiduously made the reason for the coming of the girl for marriage to Pôrdshâspô, the father of Zaratûst, through her father sending the girl to the dwelling of Padiragtarâspô, the father of Pôrůshâspô. · 11. One marvel? is this which is declared, that when that girl, in going to that family, stood on the loftiest place in the country of the Spitâmas, and it is surveyed by her, a great wonder is manifested to the girl, just as revelation mentions: 'It is their 3 a third is deadly' in IV, 67, and a demon himself is a Karap in IV, 61, and has Karaps under his control in II, 45. The following Karaps are named in the time of Zaratûst :-Därâsrôbô mentioned in Chap. III, 4-41; Brâdrôk-rêsh in III, 20-34, who is called a Türânian in III, 28; Vaêdvôist in IV, 21-24; and Zâk in IV, 67. Some others are named by other writers. The Kavîgs, Kaîs, or Kîgs are mentioned with the Karaps in Chaps. II, 9; III, 50; IV, 2. 6. 14, 64, 67; VIII, 26, 40, as equally objectionable, but their avocation as officials is not defined. Both classes seem to have held official rank, but whether their titles were tribal or official is uncertain. The Avesta calls them Karapan and Kavi; the latter word being also the royal title of the Kayan dynasty, of which Vistâsp was a member. Compare Zs. XV, 1-4; XXIII, 8.
So also in $$ 13, 70. In Bd. XXXII, 1, 2, the two old MSS. of the Iranian Bundahis have Padtarâsp thrice and Pirtarasp once; K 20 has Spitarsp and Paitiresp; K 20 b has Padirtarâspo and Paitirispô; and M6 has Padirtarâsp and Paitiresp. Zs. XIII, 6, has Purtarâspô.
One of the marvellous manifestations mentioned in $ 1. . Probably we should read : It is the voice of those sacred beings' who are mentioned in § 10. As the word yasdan,sacred beings,' is exactly similar, in Pahlavi, to shân (in valdshân, 'their'
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