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 XI, 11-XII, 3.
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CHAPTER XII.
Sadkar Nask. 1. The eleventh fargard, the Yasna", is about the assembly of the angels of the spiritual existences on account of the complaint of fire; and the complaint of fire in the assembly, with its statement of this, too? : 'I am not of the world here, and from here I will extricate myself, from the earth up to the sky, and there I will shine on to the earth of seven regions, like the moon and sun and even the divinelyproduced stars when they shine with their own light. 2. The words of Adharmazd about the just complaining of fire as regards the contamination of the creatures, the impossibility of keeping the fire undisturbed, and satisfying the fire concerning the creation of the creatures for the worldly existence, along with the disturbed condition of fire, too, owing to the impossibility of maintaining the uncreated state which, with the freedom from disturbance of fire also, was better; likewise proclaiming the care of it. 3. And the speech of the fire was thus : 'If there be not that one mode whereby I may thus shine, owing to those that have acted according to my request thou art aware. O Adharmazd! there
1 The Yasna of seven chapters, Av. yasna haptanghaiti (Yas. XXXV, 3-XLI, 6), here written asno (for yesno) in both MSS.
The spirit of fires, after repeating to the heavenly council the complaint he had already made to Adharmazd alone, concludes with the same threat as in Chap. XI, 11.
8 B gûmêkhtakih (K gûmesakih) implies deterioration by an intermingling' of evil. . K omits these last four words by mistake.
6 That is, if he cannot desert the world, owing to the necessity of stopping with those who act properly.
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