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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DÎNKARD, BOOK VII.
on hearing 1 him they lamented, very violently is it lamented by the demons. 45. By the Ahunavair, which the righteous Zaratûst chanted aloud to them, all the demons are seized and buried in the earth, where the complete shattering of their bodies is manifest.' 46. So that, after the shattering of their bodies, it became evident to those in the world that they were not able to do mischief in the bodily form of a demon, and they have been declared of the nature of sacred beings to mankind, but mankind fully understood that they are not sacred beings, but demons.
47. Zaratûst revealed (gush &fto) to mankind by the word of Adharmazd, how in this religion the latter tells in words to Zaratûst where and how, in the embodied existence, mankind consider a demon as exalted or as a high-priest, because they are where they say that they must consider some one as high-priest. 48. So Allharmazd spoke to Zaratûst thus: 'How do they who are good people, O Zaratûst! consider a demon as exalted ? and how are they that even tell a demon thus: “We should accept you,” because the demons speak thus : " It will happen to you”?'
49. And Zaratûst spoke thus: Only for the reason, O Adharmazd! that people hasten on to that which is a jungly plain without dwellings, where no one resides from the departure of light until sun
If the word be Pahlavi, it is probably intended for snâyân, hearing'; but it may be merely an approximate transcript of Av. sna odhentis, which word, if this be the case, must have puzzled Sasanian scholars as much as it does those of the present time. As a transcript, the word might be read snôdîyân, and we might guess the meaning of the phrase to be thereupon weeping they lamented.'
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