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CHAPTER X, 4, 5.
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Dakdâv?, the mother of Zaratůst, when she was pregnant with Zaratūst, for three nights, every night a leader (khuda)2 with a hundred and fiftys demons rushed for the destruction of Zaratūst, but owing to the existence of the fire in the dwelling they knew no means of accomplishing it.
5. The rule is this, that they have a tank (môg) for the disciples, when they are going to perform the worship of God, and are sprinkling the stone seat (magok)*; and lest they should make a wet place by that sprinkling through taking water out from it, it is to be done sitting; for in the Vendidad the high-priests have taught, about making
spirit; on his going, at thirty years of age, to confer with Adhar. mazd, and his seven conferences in ten years; on the seven questions he proposed to the archangels on those occasions ; on the conveyance of the omniscient wisdom into him, showing him heaven and hell, and the intermediate place of those everstationary,' the account taken of sin and good works, the future existence, and the fate of the religion on earth till the renovation of the universe, with the coming of his future sons, the last three apostles.
1 The Pâz. Dughdå of Bund. XXXII, 10 would indicate Pahl. Dakdån, but the Dînkard has Dakdâ û bò and Dakdâ bag (pointing to Av. Dughdhavan), and the Persian forms are Dughdd and Dughdavîh. Here the name is Dakdâvo, which is transposed into Dadkâv in Chap. XII, 11; it must have meant either milk-maid' or 'suckler' originally.
? K20 has sê dâ, 'a demon,' and in Chap. XII, 11, where this section is repeated, the word can be read either sêdâ, 'a demon,' or shâh, 'a king or ruler;' of course an arch-fiend' is meant.
M6 appears to have 'sixty,' instead of fifty,' but see Chap. XII, 11.
• Or magh, on which they squat in the purification ceremony (see B. Yt. II, 36).
• Referring probably to Pahl. Vend. XVIII, 98; the ground is not to be wetted further than the length of the fore-part of the foot beyond the toes, that is, not more than a hand's breadth; this
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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 |