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CHAPTER I, II-20.
Adharmazd was helpless as regarded him?, therefore He proffers peace; and he did not agree, but bore on even into conflict with Him.
(16. And Adharmazd spoke thus : You are not omniscient and almighty, O evil spirit! so that it is not possible for thee to destroy me, and it is not possible for thee to force my creatures so that they will not return to my possession.''
117. Then Adharmazd, through omniscience, knew that : If I do not grant a period of contest, then it will be possible for him to act so that he may be able to cause the seduction of my creatures to himself. As even now there are many of the intermixture of mankind who practise wrong more than right. (18. And Adharmazd spoke to the evil spirit thus : 'Appoint a period! so that the intermingling of the conflict may be for nine thousand years.' For he knew that by appointing this period the evil spirit would be undone.
19. Then the evil spirit, unobservant and through ignorance, was content with that agreement; just like two men quarrelling together, who propose a time thus: Let us appoint such-and-such a day for a fight.
20. Adharmazd also knew this, through omniscience, that within these nine thousand years, for three thousand years everything proceeds by the will of Adharmazd, three thousand years there is an intermingling of the wills of Adharmazd and Aharman, and the last three thousand years the evil spirit is disabled, and they keep the adversary away? from the creatures.
1 The words den val stand for den valman. . That is, 'the adversary is kept away.' In Pahlavi the third
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| SR No. | 007687 |
| Book Title | Sacred Laws of Aryas |
| 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 |