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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1. LEGENDS RELATING TO KERESÂSP.
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Rivâyats!. The Pahlavi legend is included among a series of quotations, regarding the importance of fire, contained in a Pahlavi Rivậyat preceding the Dâdistân-1 Dinik in some manuscripts ? ; and its close correspondence with the above summary of the fourteenth fargard of the Sadkar Nask will be seen from the following translation of it :
.... 'And it is declared that fire is so precious that Adharmazd spoke unto Zaratust thus: “Of whose soul is it that the actions, position, consciousness, and guardian spirit seem best when thou shalt behold it?"
And Zaratūst spoke thus: “Of him who is Keresåsp."
'Adharmazd summoned the soul of Keresåsp, and the soul of Keresâsp saw. Zaratûst and, on account of the misery which it had seen in hell, it spoke unto him thus: “I have been a priest of Kapal', which should be a power in support of me; and for the sake of begging life I have ever travelled through the world, and the world would have become hideous in my eyes, the world which should have feared my splendouro."
1 In B29, fols. 167–169, where it is quoted from a work called the Sad-darband-i Hash.
* In BK and J; but in K35 this portion of the Rivayat has been lost, with the first 71 folios of that MS.; it also appears to have been similarly lost from the older MS. belonging to Mr. Tehmuras Dinshawji Anklesaria. * J omits this word.
• omits the seeing. • Kabul. One of the three most sacred fires, the Frôbak fire, is said to have been removed by Vistasp from Khvârisem to Kávulistân (see Bd. XVII, 6). The Persian version has would to God (kaske) I were a priest l' and alters the rest of the sentence to correspond.
• Reading re-î li; J has 100 var, a hundred lakes (or ordeals or results).'
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