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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DÎNKARD, BOOK IX.
universe ; and Kal-Khusrôi's asking Vâê, the longcontinuing lord, about his smiting so many of the ancients who have been the highest of mankind in splendour and glory. 2. The reply of Vâė, the long-continuing lord, about his smiting them; and, upon that answer, Kai-Khûsrôi's taking Vaê, the long-continuing lord, and transforming him into the shape of a camel, mounting him, and going, with the Iranian levies (hangamanộikân), to the place where the immortal Haoist, son of Geurva?, lies in strength ?, and his letting him lie; also his going beyond (kâdmon) him to the place where Tas 3, the banisher of strise, lay in strength, and his letting him also lie; and his going beyond him to the place where Kal-Apivêh - lies, and his letting him also lie.
ever, two Váês (see Dd. XXX, 4; Mkh. II, 115), the good Váê who assists the departed soul, and the bad Váê who opposes it; the former is closely connected with the angel Râm in Yt. XV, 0, 58, and the latter with Astô-vîdhôtu, the demon of death, in Vend. V, 8, 9; Bd. XXVIII, 35. They appear to be personifications of the upper and lower air, respectively; the former being considered pure through its connection with the sacred beings, and the latter impure through contamination by the demons. Possibly the legend about Vae in our text may have been suggested by the words vay Q-beredubyô and va yôi in Yas. LIII, 6, 7; in which case, this fargard must be considered, to some extent, as a continuation of the preceding one. According to Dd. XXXVI, 3 Kai-Khôsrội was made to pass away by Vâê.
i Compare Av. Yûsta Gâurva yana of Yt. XIII, 118. But Yôista Fryâna, of Yt. XIII, 120, is one of the immortals mentioned in Byt. II, 1; Dd. XC, 3.
? Reading hang, which can also mean'a cave;' but we can likewise read hug, spiritual life.'
s Av. Tusa of Yt. V, 53, 58; he is one of the immortals mentioned in Bd. XXIX, 6; Dd. XXXVI, 3.
• Av. Kavi Aipivanghu of Yt. XIII, 132, XIX, 71. He was son of Kaf-Kavad, brother of Kai-Us, and great-grandfather of Vistâsp's grandfather (see Bd. XXXI, 25, 28, 31, 34).
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