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 V.
and prosperity are sought, the world is controlled, and the creator and good creations are propitiated.
CHAPTER II. 1. In the pure light and equal to the archangelscollected together and reckoned together, since the original creation, and completely unmixed-Zaratûst was spiritually fasħioned and provided undefectively for the acceptance and propagation of the religion in the world 1. 2. And when he is sent for the manifestation of restrained saintliness (môkih) and bodily substance, great glory and radiance become as much discernible in him as the same had come into the posterity of Yim who are Pôrúshâspô?, his father, and Dakdâub 3 who is his mother; and also while he is being born and for the duration of life, he produced a radiance, glow, and brilliance from the place of his own abode, that issued intensely and strongly, like the splendour of fire, to distant lands 4.
3. Also about the wizards and witches, tyrants, Kigs, and Karaps, and other miscreants who have produced outrage for him during his birth and childhood, with desire for his destruction; who have manifestly come about his death or disablement, and even so far as those who have come into the visible assembly about the destruction of his glory and other causes of helplessness 6. 4. And also including the wolves and other wild beasts, to whom he was
· Dk. VII, ii, 1, 2, 14-21, 36-42, 46, 47; Zs. XIII, 4. • Ibid. 13.
Ibid. 3-8; Zs. XIII, 1-3. • Ibid. 56-58; Zs. XIV, 7. • Dk. VII, iii, 5-14; Zs. XVI, 1-7.
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