Text of Confucianism Part 02

SR No.: 007676
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Legge
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1882
Total Pages: 2405
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 43 MB

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DÂDISTÂN-I dinîK.
how are they when one is righteous, and how when one is wicked?
2. The reply is this, that thus the high-priests have said, that the Dâîtih peak 1 is in Airân-vêg?, in the middle of the world; reaching unto the vicinity of that peak is that beam-shaped (dâr-kerpô) spirit, the Kinvad bridge 3, which is thrown across from the Albarz enclosure (var) back to the Dâîtih peak. 3. As it were that bridge is like a beam of many sides, of whose edges (pôsto) there are some which are broad, and there are some which are thin and sharp; its broad sides (sûkîhâ) are so large that its width is twenty-seven reeds (nâi), and its sharp sides are so contracted (tang) that in thinness it is just like the edge of a razor. 4. And when the souls of the righteous and wicked arrive it turns to that side which is suitable to their necessities, through the great glory of the creator and the command of him who takes the just account?
5. Moreover, the bridge becomes a broad bridge for the righteous, as much as the height of nine spears (nizako)—and the length of those which they carry is each separately three reeds ; and
* The Kakâd-i Dâitik of Bd. XII, 7.
· The primeval home of Mazda-worship (see Vend. I, 5, 6), which the Bundahis places in the direction of Adarbigân;' it is also stated to contain the Dâitîk or Dâitih river (which must not be confounded with the Dâitih peak) and the Daraga river (on whose bank Zaratûst's father is said to have dwelt), and to have been the scene of Zaratůst's first promulgation of the religion (Bd. XX, 13, 32, XXIX, 12, XXXII, 3). Its winter is likewise described as both long and cold (Vend. I, 8-12, Bd. XXV, 11, 16), which is the case in Adarbîgân. See Chap. XX, 3.
The angel Rashnů. • The nine spears of three reeds each, in length, making up the
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