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BUNDAHIS.
9. Adharmazd performed the spiritual Yazisn ceremony with the archangels (a meshô spendân) in the Rapitvin Gâh, and in the Yazisn he supplied every means necessary for overcoming the adversary! 10. He deliberated with the consciousness (bôd) and guardian spirits (fravahar) of men, and the omniscient wisdom, brought forward among men, spoke thus: Which seems to you the more advantageous, when 3 I shall present you to the world ? that you shall contend in a bodily form with the fiend (drag), and the fiend shall perish, and in the end I shall have you prepared again perfect and immortal, and in the end give you back to the world, - and you will be wholly immortal, undecaying, and undisturbed; or that it be always necessary to provide you protection from the destroyer?'
11. Thereupon, the guardian spirits of men became of the same opinion with the omniscient wisdom about going to the world, on account of the evil that comes upon them, in the world, from the fiend (drug) Aharman, and their becoming, at last, again unpersecuted by the adversary, perfect, and immortal, in the future existence, for ever and everlasting.
Windischmann has nearly the same, as both follow the Pâzand MSS. in reading hômisak (as a variant of hamisak), always,' instead of khômsåk.
1 Or 'adversity'
• These were among the fravashis already created (see Chap. I, 8).
• Reading amat, when,' instead of mân, which' (see note to Chap. I, 7).
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| SR No. | 007671 |
| Book Title | Zend Avesta Part 01 |
| 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 |