Sacred Laws of Aryas

SR No.: 007687
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Gorge Buhler
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1897
Total Pages: 1979
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 36 MB

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VENDIDÂD.
5 (15). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Which is the fourth place where the Earth feels most happy?
Ahura Mazda answered : 'It is the place where there is most increase of flocks and herds.'
6 (18). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Which is the fifth place where the Earth feels most happy?
Ahura Mazda answered: 'It is the place where Alocks and herds yield most dung.'
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7 (21). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Which is the first place where the Earth feels sorest grief?
Ahura Mazda answered : 'It is the neck of Arezúra !, whereon the hosts of fiends rush forth from the burrow of the Drug?
8 (25). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Which is the second place where the Earth feels sorest grief?
Ahura Mazda answered: 'It is the place wherein most corpses of dogs and of men lie.buried !
? The neck of Arezdra (Arezarahê griva) is 'a mount at the gate of hell, whence the demons rush forth' (Bund. XII, 8; Dadistân XXXIII, 5); it is also called the head of Arezûra' (Farg. XIX, 45), or the back of Arez@ra' (Bund. XII, 2). Arezūra was a fiend, son of Ahriman, who was killed by the first man, Gayðmard (Mainyo-i-khard XXVII, 15). The mount named from him lies in the North (which is the seat of the demons): it seems to belong to the Alborz chain, like the Damavand (Bund. XII, 8), where Asi Dahaka was bound (Farg. I, 18, notes).
· Hell, the Drug being assimilated to a burrowing Khrafstra. Cf. Farg. VII, 24.
3. It is declared in the good religion, that, when they conceal
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