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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CHAPTER XI, 1-4.
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Srðshó-karanam is one dirham and two mads; three Srôshô-karanâms are the weight of four dirhams and two mads?; an Agerept is thirty-three stirs?; an Aivirist is the weight of thirty-three dirhams; an Aredas is thirty stîrs 3; a Khôr is sixty stirs ; a Bâzât is ninety stirs; a Yât is a hundred and eighty stirs, and a Tanâpahar is three hundred stirs.
3. Every one ought to be unhesitating and unanimous about this, that righteousness is the one thing, and heaven (garôdmân)* the one place, which is good, and contentment the one thing more comfortable.
4. When a sheep' is slaughtered and divided, its meat-offering (gâvûs-dâk) is to be thus presented :— the tongue, jaw, and left eye are the
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here given appears to agree with that stated in Chap. XVI, 1, but differs very much from the sixteen dirhams mentioned in Chap. I, 2, and the twenty-eight dirhams quoted by Spiegel.
1 That is, one Srôsho-karanam is one dirham and a half, and three of them, therefore, are four dirhams and a half; the mad being a quarter-dirham. This computation differs considerably from the amounts stated in Chaps. X, 24, XVI, 5, but corresponds better with the supposition (see Chap. IV, 14, note) that a Srôshokaranam is one-third of a Farmân.
. Both this amount and the next are evidently wrong, and no doubt the Pahlavi ciphers have been corrupted. Chap. XVI, 5 gives' sixteen' and 'twenty-five' stîrs, which are probably correct, though the computation in Chap. I, 2 is very different.
3 Written Aredûs 30 sî, an Aredûs is 30 (thirty),' as in Chap. I, 2; with which also all the remaining amounts correspond.
• See note on pâhlûm ahvân in Chap. VI, 3. 5 Or 'goat.'
• Av. g âus hudhau, which is generally represented by a small piece of butter placed upon one of the sacred cakes; but on certain occasions small pieces of meat are used. The object of this section is to point out what part of the animal is suitable for use in a ceremony dedicated to any one of the angels, or spirits, mentioned.
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