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SELECTIONS OF ZÂD-SPARAM.
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an indicator of the period from the adversary having come to the creatures, as far as unto the end of the six millenniums each millennium being ten centuries
—which amount to 60 single centuries—a century being ten tens 2-and up to the time when its : cold and distress arrive, which become awful; the 600, including the excess as far as one ten“, are years of the 6000 years which are the words of the six Gâthas that are the first indicator of the six millenniums; therefore of the 60 centuries are then the 600 and those which are added to them (zak-1 gha).
9. And after those 6000, which are the 6000 years, are the Airyaman' of Ashavahist and the accompanying sayings (ham-vâko) which are at the end of the Gâthas; those are the 57 years of Sôshânse, and for the sake of them, too, are the Airyaman and from the praise of righteousness at its end to the consecration of the Airyaman, originally 57 words (mârik), because the praise of righteousness for the Airyaman is 12, and the consecration of the Airyaman is 21, of the original 577.
1 The three millenniums during which Adharmazd and Aharman had nearly equal influence, and the last three millenniums during which the power of Aharman diminishes (see Bd. I, 20).
2
.در stands for رو Assuming that
3 Assuming that mūnas. 'whose.' stands for a matas.
• As the cipher for 'one' precedes that for 'ten,' it may possibly mean 'one less than ten,' as in the Roman IX. At any rate, 6609 years with the 57 accounted for in $ 9 make up the requisite total of 6666; but the mode of making this number correspond with the six millenniums is not very clear.
0 Yas. LIV, 1. . See Dk. VIII, Chap. XIV, 14; Bd. XXX, 7.
? The Airyaman contains 24 words, its Ashem-voh 12, and its consecration (Yas. LIV, 2) 21 words, making altogether 57 words.
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| SR No. | 007682 |
| Book Title | Questions of King Milinda Part 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | T W Rhys Davids |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1894 |
| Total Pages | 2240 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 38 MB |