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, 61-IV, 7.
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speaking to be heard was issued ', then Zaratûst, on becoming exalted, called out unto the embodied world of righteousness to extol righteousness and to scorn the demons 2. 5. "The homage of the Mazdaworship of Zaratûst, and the ceremonial and obeisance for the archangels are the best for you I assert; and of deprecation (a yazisnih) for the demons nextof-kin marriage is really the best intimation, so that, from the information which is given as to the trustworthiness of a good work, the greatest are the most intimate of them, those of father and daughter, son and she who bore him, and brother and sister.'
6. It is declared that, upon those words, innumerable demon-worshipping Kigs and Karaps have rushed upon Zaratûst and strove for his death, just like this which revelation states :— It is then a number (mar) have run away who have sat in the vicinity of Târ's progeny (h û nûsko) , the arbitrator ; and the shame of the brother of Târ arose, like that of a person whose shame was that they spoke of his next-of-kin marriage so that he might contract it.'
7. This Tûr was Aûrvâstâ-dang 4 the Tûr, the scanty giver, who was like a great sovereign of that
From this point $$ 4-8 and 11 have been already translated in S. B. E., vol. xviii, pp. 412, 413, in illustration of the meaning of Khvêtûk-das in Sasanian times and later.
? Av. staomi ashem; nâismî daevo (Yas. XI, 19; XII, I).
3 An opprobrious term for the progeny of evil beings and animals, also used by a Karap when speaking of Zaratûst in Chap. III, 21.
• As this name has not been found in the extant Avesta, its correct reading is uncertain. In Zs. XX, 8, it can be read Aûrvasto-dih, in which dih is the Pahl. translation of Av. dang,hu, of which dang is a Pahl. transliteration; and the whole name may mean friendly to the province,' which seems suitable to this particular ruler. The MS. appears to have dêng.
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