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

Page 1959

CHAPTER II, 10–15.
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voice is carried away to her from them; “do thou proceed to that village which is theirs; it is very depressed in height and very wide in breadth, in which he who is living and the cattle mostly walk together ; besides, for thy assistance that village is divinely fashioned and compassionate." 12. Thereupon that damsel stopped, and also fully observed that their recital seems to be for the conveyance of this statement, that my action should be such as was ordered me by my father also. 13. Then that damsel thoroughly washed her hands, and proceeded from them to that village which was Padiragtarâspo's, and the glory came to Pôrushåspô, the son of Padiragtarâspô.
14. One marvel is this which is declared, that the creator Allharmazd passed on the guardian spirit (fravâ har) of Zaratast, to the parents of Zaratûst, through (le-kadôn) Hôm", by a marvel produced by cultivation. 15. Again, too, revelation says that, when the separation (burino) of the third millennium occurred, at the end of the 3,000 years of spiritual existence without a destroyer, (after the creatures were in spiritual existence, and before the arrival of the fiend); then the archangels framed Zaratûst together, and they seated the guardian spirit within, having a mouth, having a tongue, and the proclaimer of the celestial mansions.
or 'those'), a copyist would be liable to the blunder of leaving out the final word in writing valdshân yazdân. Or the original writer himself may not have quoted enough of the text he was reading, to make his meaning clear.
A sacred and mythical tree, described in Bd. XVIII, 1-3, and often personified as a sacred being. It is now represented, in Parsi ceremonies, by twigs of a particular plant brought from Persia.
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