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, 45-51.
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warriorship, husbandry, and artisanship; besides a perfect friendship for the sacred beings and the good, and an awful enmity for the demons and the vile. 48. That is the nature by which the habits (då dõih) of mankind and bipeds, the perfection and completeness of the sacred beings through the creativeness of Adharmazd, and its own commemoration of them are provided. 49. So that the sacred beings shall bring a report, as to his superiority, from every one of those who are and were and will be, and of his coming for reminding us of Allharmazd and of the lord-and-mastership (a hû-va-radih) of the world, also of the preservation of the creations therein (ayîpo-dahisnân), from the destroyer, by the tongue of the many-mannered (kabed-sarâdako) sage, the fully-virtuous one of the age producing no harm (avazand-dahig) in the world. 50. And the demons on this account, that this is he whom many Kigs 1 and Karaps have to influence the good to confound and destroy, then also kept their promise and practised friendship.
51. And on the completion of thirty years beyond his birth ?, the archangel Vohûmanô came on in commemoration of Adharmazd, when he was bringing his Hôm-water (mayâ-i Hômigân) from the
· See Chap. II, 9 n.
* The remaining contents of this and the following chapter are thus summarized in Dk. VIII, xiv, 3, 4:- His attainment on maturity, at thirty years of age, to a conference with Adharmagd; and the occurrence of seven conferences in ten years. Many marvels, owing to him are published therein, just as there are some which, collected and selected, are noticed by the Dînkard manuscript,' that is, in this seventh book, in which, however, the details of the seven conferences do not occur; but some are mentioned in Zs. XXI, 8-XXII, 13.
See Visp. XI, 2.
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