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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CHAPTER XLV, 8-XLVI, 1.
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14. Also the nature of sayings full of humility (purpâstih), well-favoured, most select, and adapted for that which one mentions thus :—'I reverence that chief, the beneficent and eminent Hådôkht, out of which is the sustainment of the strength of every word of Zaratust they trust in.'
15. It is perfect excellence that is righteousness.
CHAPTER XLVI. 1. The Gathas of the Yast!, as the first offspring of the Ahunavair, are a recitation of the source of sources of the religion, and in the compass (parvastârih) of the Gâthas, every word (mârik)
1 Corresponding to the twenty-first word, vâstârem, in the Ahunavair, according to B.P. Riv.; but it is the first Nask in other Rivayats. In Chap. I, 9, 12 it is called Stôd-yast, praise-ritual, (Av. staota yêsnya); and Stůd-yast, or Yast, in the Rivâyats, which also state that it contains thirty-three kardah, or zürat. In Sls. XIII, I we are told that Vísâise-ameshâ-spentâ (Yas. XIV, 1) is the beginning of the Stôtân-yasno; and, if we look for its end, we find Yas. LVIII, LIX both ending with special reverence of
the whole collection of the Stôtân-yasnân. We may therefore conclude that Yas. XIV-LIX, with its supplementary passages in Visp. V-XXIV, contains the whole of the Stod-yast. But from this we must deduct Yas. XIX-XXI which are the first three fargards of the Bako Nask, Yas. LII which is an interpolation, and Yas. LVI, LVII which are the Srôsh Yasts, lesser and greater; we must also consider the Yasna Haptanghaiti as a single section, in accordance with its treatment in Bk. IX, Chaps. XII, XXXV, LVII; and much of the Vîspêrad may not belong to the primitive text mentioned in § 3. Making these necessary deductions we have exactly thirty-three hâs of the Yasna left for the Stôd-yast, as stated in the Rivâyats.
This word can also be read fra vistârih (A v. fra + vid), 'interpretation,' or frôstârih, handing down.'
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