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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7 (24). Spitama Zarathustra said in answer: 'No! never will I renounce the good Religion of the worshippers of Mazda, either for body or life, though they should tear away the breath!'
8 (27). Again to him said the Maker of the evil world, Angra Mainyu : By whose Word wilt thou strike, by whose Word wilt thou repel, by whose weapon will the good creatures (strike and repel) my creation, who am Angra Mainyu?'
9 (29). Spitama Zarathustra said in answer: 'The sacred mortar, the sacred cups, the Haoma, the Word taught by Mazda, these are my weapons, my best weapons! By this Word will I strike, by this Word will I repel, by this weapon will the good creatures (strike and repel thee), O evil-doer, Angra Mainyu! The Good Spirit made the creation'; he made it in the boundless Time. The Amesha-Spentas made the creation, the good, the wise Sovereigns.'
10 (35). Zarathustra chanted aloud the Ahuna
Vairya.
The holy Zarathustra said aloud: This I ask thee: teach me the truth, O Lord ?!...'
II.
11 (37). Zarathustra asked Ahura Mazda: “O Ahura Mazda, most beneficent spirit, Maker of the
a thousand years' dominion of the worldly existence, as was given to the Vadakân monarch Dahâk”' (West, Pahlavi Texts, III, 103).
1 The first duty of every good Mazda-worshipper is to think of Ormazd as the creator, and of Ahriman as the destroyer (Minokhard II, 9).
? This verse is the beginning of the Tad thwa pereså Gåtha (Yasna XLIV); cf. the Introduction to the Fargard.
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