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CHAPTER XXXII, 14-XXXIII, 5.
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chaos (gůmêzako), but the evil is abundantly and considerably more than the good; and the place is terrible, dark, stinking, and grievous with evil. 3. And one is that which is called the worst existence, and it is there the first tormentors (vikhrunigâno) and demons have their abode; it is full of evil and punishment, and there is no comfort and pleasure whatever. 4. And one is called Dragåskân', and is at the bottom of the gloomy existence, where the head (ka mârako) of the demons rushes; there is the populous abode of all darkness and all evil.
5. These three places, collectively, are called hell, which is northerly, descending, and underneath this earth, even unto the utmost declivity of the sky; and its gate is in the earth, a place of the northern quarter, and is called the Arezûr ridge”, a mountain which, among its fellow mountains of the name of Arezûr 3 that are amid the rugged (kôfik) mountains, is said in revelation * to have a great fame with the demons, and the rushing together and assembly of the demons in the world are on the summit of that mountain, or as it is called 'the head of Arezūr:'
1 The Av. drugaskanãm of Vend. XIX. 139, which is translated 'the slothful ones of the Drug' by Darmesteter, the servants of the Drug' by Harlez, and 'wizards' in Haug's Essays, p. 336. Drugaskan is said to be a son of the evil spirit in Bd. XXXI, 6. . See Bd. XII, 8.
Bd. XII, 16 mentions another Arezûr in the direction of Arům.'
• Vend. XIX, 142 (trans. D.) say's 'they run away casting the evil eye, the wicked, evil-doing Daêvas: “Let us gather together at the head of Arezûra !")
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| SR No. | 007676 |
| Book Title | Text of Confucianism Part 02 |
| 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 |