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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VIII. AOGEMAIDÊ.
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he kept in good condition troops of men and herds of animals);
95. Who, for 616 years, 6 months and 13 days ?, kept this world free from death and old age, and kept away greed and need from the creation of Hôrmazd;
96. Yet, when death came over him, he delivered up his body and could not struggle with death.
97. Or there was Dahaks, he of the evil religion, who kept the world under his tyranny during a thousand years, less one day,
98. And introduced into the world many ways of witchcraft and evil-doing ;
99. Yet, when death came over him, he delivered up his body and could not struggle with death.
100. Or there was Frédun, the Athwyan,
101. Who smote and bound Azi Dahak, that great evil-doer*; he put in chains the Dêvs of Mazandarân', and introduced into the world a number of talismans 8 ;
102. Yet, when death came over him, he delivered up his body and could not struggle with death.
103. I am grateful to the Lord Hôrmazd.
104. I think thus in a grateful spirit: the beast of burden does not throw off its burden : fate has come, it cannot be thrown away.
* See above, p. II, note 2. On Gim or Yima, see Farg. II, and Yt. V, 25, 26; XV, 15-17.
The Pahlavi transcription and Mindkhard XXVII, 25, have sixteen days.
• Asi Dabaka, see Yt. V, 29-31; XV, 19–21. • See Yt. V, 33-35. * See above, p. 9, note 4; p. 141, note 1. . See above, p. 246.
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