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 1965

CHAPTER II, 34-43.
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nature of Zaratûst came from that water to those plants.
39. One marvel is this which is declared, that, in order that the nature of Zaratûst shall come unto his parents, after the mounting of the archangels Pôrúshâspô drives six white cows, with yellow ears, up to those plants. 40. And here is manifested a great wonder, such as revelation mentions thus : Two ? of those cows, unimpregnated, had become full of milk, and the nature of Zaratůst came from the plants to those cows, and is mingled with the cows' milk; it is owing thereto that Pôrůshâspô drove those cows back. 41. And Pôrůshåspô spoke to Dakdâùb thus : 'O Dúkdâûb! in two of those cows, which are unimpregnated and have not calved, milk has appeared; do thou milk those cows, which are the splendour and glory of the cows and of any embodied existence whatever.' 42. And Dakdàub arose and, taking that pail of hers which had a fourfold capacity, she also milked from them the milk which was in them, and a great part of what they gave up to her she had to throw away; and the nature of Zaratûst was in that milk.
43. One marvel is this which is manifested in the struggle of the adversary for concealing and spoiling that milk, just as revelation mentions thus : Thereupon, at that time, the demons formed themselves into an assembly, and the demon of demons growled thus : You demons become quite unobservant : that food is really supplied fresh, so that the formation is settled which will extend as far as to that
* Reading akhar instead of adên, then.'
? In some places the singular number is used, in others the plural,
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