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

Page 348

11. ZEND FRAGMENTS.
253 All the strokes that [have pierced] the skull are counted [ta nafdhr)?
The others shall pay the hvara penalty.
2 a (p. 9). With victorious eloquence.
2 b. A fine, well considered, well balanced, obedient : speech.
2 C. An honest man who knows how to speak, for instance, a wise man who makes intercession .
2 d. One whose words are accepted.
3 (p. 11). Sovereign, unopposed.
4 (p. 11). Good renown here below, and long bliss to the soul.
5 (p. II). All the bodily world shall become free from old age and death, from corruption and rot, for ever and ever.
6 (p. 12). A horse of first value, amongst the finest of the country, is as much as four oxen and four cows three years old.
7 (p. 12). As much as this earth.
1 Which implies a punishment of two hundred Sraoshd-kara na strokes. The words in brackets are wanting in the text: they are supplied from the Pahlavi translation.
? The hvara or khôr penalty: thirty strokes with the Sraoshokarana (Vd. IV, 30, 31).
• In accordance with the instructions of the Ratu or Dastûr.
• Who makes Gadangôi: see Tahmuras' Fragments, XLVII, note.
* Good renown in this world and bliss in the other. Cf. Yasna LXII, 6; Yast XVII, 22, and Tansar's letter to the King of Tabaristan : “He may be called a great king who takes more to heart the weal of the future than the present time, in order to deserve a good name in this world and a good seat in the next.' (Journal Asiatique, 1894, I, 512-513).
• Cf. Yast XIX, 11, 23, 89 ; XXIV, 45.
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