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 II, 63-68.
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and that man proceeded also again to the ox, and though it was carrying on still much of that talk, he did not lend an ear to it, but killed it.
67. Regarding the sole-created ox?, too, it is declared that, on meeting its destruction by the evil spirit, it bellowed thus: “Though thou thinkest it as to us, O evil spirit, astute in evil! that thou art in every way a winner by destruction, it is not to our destruction thou art even then an attainer in every way (that is, it is not possible for thee so to annihilate that we shall not arise again); even now I proclaim that that man, Zaratûst of the Spitamas, will arrive in that last revolution, who will produce distress for the demons, the assistants of the demon, and also the wicked who are bipeds.'
68. Likewise the marvellousness of Zaratūst's defeat of the demons, owing to his glory and by means of his sagacity, even before he had come into the world by birth; when Frâsîyâv 2 the wizard is amazingly distressed through seeking that glory of his by desire of the demons, just as revelation 3 mentions thus : 'Thereupon Frâsiyâv, the very powerful Tûrânian, rushed away, O Zaratûst of the Spitâmas! to the wide-formed ocean a first, a second, and a third time; and he wished to obtain that glory which is specially for those of the countries of Irân, for the born and the unborn, and which is for the righteous one; but he did not attain to that glory.'
1 Pahl. tôrâ-î aêvak-dâ do, the primeval ox, from whom the animals and plants have all descended (see Bd. III, 14, 17, 18; IV, 1-5; X, 1; XIV, 1-3; XXVII, 2).
* The same person as Frangrâsîyâk of Chaps. I, 31, 39; II, 69; XI, 3. s In Yt. XIX, 56–62; V, 42.
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