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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CHAPTER XXXVII, 79-83.:
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81. One is this, that the most grievous severance that is owing to him (the fiend) is the production of the mortality of the creatures, in which the afflicting (nizgûn) demon Astô-vidad” is the head of the many Mâzinikân demons3 82. And the propitious creator's developers were thus unprovoked (anârgônd) when the only person, who is called Gâyômard', was destroyed by him, and came back to the world as a man and a woman whose names were Marhayâ and Marhiyôih; and the propagation and connection of races were through their next-of-kin marriage of a sistero. 83. The unlucky' fiend, while he
Instead of zîs madam, 'that is owing to him,' we ought probably to read zîs bar, 'that is his production;' the Huz. madam, which is the proper equivalent of the preposition bar, on, according to,' being wrongly used for the noun bar, 'produce.' . See § 44.
The Mazainya daêva of the Avesta (see $ 44, note). • The sole-created, or primeval, man from whom the whole human race is said to have sprung (see Chap. II, 10, Bd. III, 14, 17, 19-23, XV, 1, 31).
The progenitors of the undeformed human race, who are said to have grown up, in the manner of a plant, from the seed of the dead Gâyômard (see Bd. XV, 2-5). Their names are derived from Av. mashya mashyôi, the man and woman,' but the latter form is no longer extant in the Avesta. From Av. mashya we have the Mashya of Bd. XV, 6, and the Mashya of Bd. XV, 11, 19, 20, 30. From its dialectical variant martiya in ancient Pers., which would be marethya in the Avesta (compare Av, mareta, Pers. mard), we have the Marhayâ of our text. And by transposition of the letters rt=reth=rha in these latter forms, we have the Matrô of Bd. XV, 2 and the Maharih or Maharyâ of Bd. XV, 22, note. Other forms of these names also occur (see Chaps. LXIV, 2, LXV, 2, LXXVII, 4).
o M14 has of brother and sister,' but the insertion of the extra word is unnecessary. Regarding khvêtudâd, or next-of-kin marriage, see Chap. LXV.
? Reading la-khâgasto; the fiend is certainly unlucky' here,
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