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 III, 5-12.
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ingly. 10. And here is manifested a great wonder to the multitude, just as revelation mentions it thus : • Neither was fire among the vegetation on a tree (that is, it does not come on), nor has fire seized upon plants; but on rushed, at dawn', that son-loving mother, and she came forth to him intelligently (hushllmônd), and seizing him, thereby removed him with her right hand aloft as he sat?'
11. One marvel is this which is declared, that after Pôrúshâspô spoke to the Karap Dürasrôbô about the fire not burning the child, he asked anew about putting Zaratûst to death; then to ensconce (nipâyidano) Zaratûst in a narrow path, and despatch many oxen on that path, so that he may be trampled on by the feet of the oxen at night, were the remedy that Karap proposed (gira yido) to Pôrúshâspô; and Pôrûshâspô acted accordingly. 12. Here also is manifested a wonder of grandeur to the multitude, just as revelation mentions: 'It was that ox walked on which had become sorrowful (that is, its sorrow was great owing to another ox) and it was aged and walked before that one (before the leading ox), it also hastened before that other (that is, it stood up before Zaratûst), and he was greatly pitied by it for the whole day, so that it kept away the oxen from him, being the first that walked thither and the last that walked away; on rushed at dawn that son-loving mother, forth to him she came intelli
1 Reading pavan allsh, but it might be pavan hûsh, with sense,' here and in $ 14, where there is nothing to indicate that the child was out all night, but in $$ 12, 18 he is evidently rescued the next morning.
Pahl. "madam pavan allstako. Compare Zs. XVI, 7.
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