Zend Avesta Part 01

SR No.: 007671
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Darmesteter
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1895
Total Pages: 2695
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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ANUGÍT.
want of liberality, indecision about actions', sleep, haughtiness?, fear, avarice, grief, finding fault with good acts, want of memory, immaturity (of intellect), nihilismo, violation of the rules of) conduct, want of discrimination 3, blindness, behaviour of the lowest quality, pride of performance without (actual) performance, pride of knowledge without (actual) knowledge, unfriendliness, evil disposition, want of faith, deluded convictions, want of straightforwardness, want of knowledge', sinful action, want of knowledge (of the subtle principle), stolidity", lassitude, want of self-restraint, going into inferior ways; all these qualities, O Brâhmanas ! are celebrated as being dark. And whatever other states of mind, connected with delusion, are found in various places in this world, all these are dark qualities. Constant talk in disparagement of gods, Brâhmanas and Vedas, want of liberality, vanity, delusion', anger, want of forgiveness likewise, and also animosity
According to Gilâ, p. 108, doing nothing—stolid laziness is a mark of darkness. Cl. generally on this passage Gitá, pp. 107, 118, 124 seq.; Maitri, p. 49.
· The same word as at Gîtâ, pp. 116, 125 (headstrong in the latter passage should have been haughty). Cf. as to the word, Khandogya, p. 383.
• Cf. Gitá, p. 51. • The opposite of the belief mentioned at Gfâ, p. 126.
. The same word as at Gita. p. 10g. But the commentators render it here by himsra, i.e. destructive.
I am not sure about the original word here, and the word nest but one after this. The latter Arguna Misra renders by sQkshma. tattvävedanam, which I have translated above in the text. The former seems to mean general unintelligence.
• Heaviness and dulness, induced by indolence, &c., Nilakanila. Lassitude is drooping from despondency. Going into inferior wars Arguna Misra says, mcans falling into the inserior castes; Nilakantha says it means love for base actions.
• Not being cognisant of one's own shortcomings, Arguna Misra.
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