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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THE GÂTHAS.
22. In conclusion he apostrophises the manifest certainty of the truths which he declares, and, addressing Ahura, animates the faithful not merely with the hope of the objective recompense, but with the prospect of being efficient as servants of God.
Translation.
1. These doctrines (therefore) we are earnestly declaring to you as we recite them forth from memory, words (till now) unheard' (with faith) by those who by means of the doctrinal vows? of the harmful Lie are delivering the settlements of Righteousness to death, but words which are of the best unto those who are heartily devoted to Ahura?.
2. And if by this means the indubitable truths are not seen in the souls, then as better than these words) I will come to you all (in my person) with
1 Roth, wollen wir Worte künden-ungern gehört von denen, welche nach des Unholds Geboten,' &c. Hübschmann preferring
wir sprechen Worte nicht anhörbar für diejenigen' (Casuslehre, s. 223). A dative of the pronoun is certainly more natural than the ablative as inst. But on the whole agushtâ seems better in its ordinary sense, although in so rendering we are obliged to supply a word.
. Valmansân mûn pavan afrîngânih i Drøg zak i Aharâyîh gêhân barâ marenkînênd.
The Pahlavi may be rendered as follows: Both these benedictions, which I (we) recite as yours (the Avesta and Zand], we are teaching by word to him who is no hearer, (to the destroyer of sanctity (the heretical persecutor) [ ]]. Those who utterly slay the world of righteousness through the benedictions of the Drag [ ], even those might be an excellent thing, if they would cause progress in what belongs to Allharmazd.
* Read perhaps advayao; see the Pahlavi. Otherwise 'the way' advão as panthâs; but the participle * does not agree. Compare for meaning kavím advayantam, sákhả ádvayâs.*
0 The Pahlavi renders in the soul' freely by believes :' Pavan nikîrisnõ là hêmnunêdo as pavan zak î agûmânîkîh. The general indications are to be observed.
* Is it a loc.?
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