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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and Gandarep was taken and slain by me'. And if he had not been slain by me, Aharman would have become predominant over thy creatures."
'Adharmazd spoke thus : "Stand off! for thou art hideous in my eyes, because the fire, which is my son, was extinguished by thee."
Keresåsp spoke thus : “Grant me, O Adharmazd! heaven or the supreme heaven! for I have slain the highwaymen? who were so big in body that, when they were walking, people considered in this way, that below them are the stars and moon, and below them moves the sun at dawn, and the water of the sea reaches up to their knees.' And I reached up to their legs, and they were smitten on the legs by me; they fell, and the hills on the earth were shattered by them 3. And if those fallen* highwaymen had not been slain by me, Aharman would have become predominant over thy creatures.”
'Adharmazd spoke thus: "Stand off! for thou shouldst be hideous in my eyes, because the fire, which is my son, was extinguished by thee."
Keresâsp spoke thus : “Grant me, O Adharmazd! heaven or the supreme heaven! When the wind was weakened (rakhtě) and paralysed by me, the
1 The Persian version says, I slew him, and as he fell down many villages and places became desolate.'
: The nine highwaymen' of Zamyâd Yt. 41. The Persian version says "seven.' BK has walked,' instead of slain.'
9 Instead of this sentence the Persian version has through fear of them people could not go on any journey, and every one whom they might see, on the road that he went, they would instantly eat up; and in three years they reckoned three hundred thousand men they had slain and destroyed. And I fought with them and slew all the seven.'
• J omits the word 'fallen.'
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