Zend Avesta Part 02

SR No.: 007672
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Darmesteter
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1883
Total Pages: 2221
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 41 MB

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CONTENTS.
xvii
CHAP
DINKARD, Book IX.
PAGE 1. Introductory
. . . 172 2. Südkar Nask, fargard 1. Use of various repetitions of
the Ahunavair, and the division of the Nasks accord
ing to its lines . . . . . . . 172 3. Same, fargard 2. The Ashem-vohở . .
175 4. Same, fargard 3. Formation, decline, and death of
human beings; illiberal opulence . . . . 175 5. Same, fargard 4. The utilisers and misusers of life,
the latter being the defects of Dahâk; the vices driven away by Yim, what is to be avoided, the distresser and the distressed, and the mode of relieving the latter . . .
. . . 177 6. Same, fargard 5. Forgetfulness of kinsfolk and un
forgetfulness of the Gâthic spirit, complaint and power of that spirit . .
. . . 178 7. Same, fargard 6. The five excellences, distribution and
acquirement of fortune, grief of an old man, things to be amassed in youth, storeholders of excellence,
how one should drink and eat . . . . 179 8. Same, fargard 7. The four periods in Zaratust's mil
lenium . . . . . . . . . 180 9. Same, fargard 8. Abstinence from sins due to rever
ence for the arch-demons, chattering while eating, prayer and purity at meals, loss of merit from want of a priest, proper times for the ceremonials of
various sacred beings . . . . . . 181 10. Same, fargard 9. Heinous sinfulness of sodomy . . 185 11. Same, fargard 10. Complaint of fire against seven
kinds of people who injure it; ($ 10) proper and improper fire, its wish to leave the world resisted, attention to it is the best worship, the righteous are
to be pleased and not vexed . . . . . 186 12. Same, fargard 11. Petition of fire for removal to the
sky or to Afrân-vég, the propitious fire Gusn-asp; reward of the promoters of fire, and sin of its injurers; ($ 10) evil of maintaining fire by extortion, and of neglecting it; all food to be consecrated, opposition of the fiend to worship, three grades of (37)
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