Zend Avesta Part 03

SR No.: 007673
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: L H Mills
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1887
Total Pages: 2618
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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IV, 1, 38.
VESSANTARA.
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and the speaker of falsehood by truth, and all evil did he overcome by righteousness! When he was. thus giving away–he who was seeking after righteousness, who had made righteousness his aimthen were the great winds, on which the earth rests below, agitated by the full force of the power of the influence that resulted from his generosity, and little by little, one by one, the great winds began to blow confusedly, and up and down and towards each side the earth swayed, and the mighty trees rooted in the soil 2 began to totter, and masses of cloud were heaped together in the sky, and terrible winds arose laden with dust, and the heavens rushed together, and hurricanes blew with violent blasts, and a great and terrible mighty noise was given forth. And at the raging of those winds, the waters little by little began to move, and at the movement of the waters the great fish and the scaly creatures were disturbed, and the waves began to roll in double breakers, and the beings that dwell in the waters were seized with fear and as the breakers rushed together in pairs the roar of the ocean grew loud, and the spray was lashed into fury, and garlands of foam arose, and the great ocean opened to its depths, and the waters rushed hither and thither, the furious crests of their waves meeting this way and that; and the Asuras, and Garulas, and Yakkhas, and Någas 3 shook with fear, and thought in their alarm: “What now! How now! is the great ocean being turned upside down ?”
On this sentiment Mr. Trenckner calls attention to the analogous phrases at Dhammapada, verse 223.
Sînapattå: which the Simbalese renders polo talebi kal gewi patra wolimata peminiyâwu wriksha yo.
• Fabulous beings supposed to occupy these fabulous waters.
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