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doers, and all powerful and brave; and they shall produce the renovation through a desire for an existence undecaying, immortal, hungerless, and thirstless for ever and everlasting.
8. It is perfect excellence that is righteousness.
CHAPTER XXIV. 1. Of the Varstmânsar1 there are twenty-three fargards, and the first is the Aethra paitis?, on the asking of Zaratust, by Maidôk-mâhs, about the nature of the birth of Zaratûst, and his coming to the religion. 2. And the reply of Zaratast about the combative coming together of the life-causing and death-causing spirits at his birth. 3. This, too, that when the fellow-villagers 6 of her who bore him saw his head 6
1 The second of the Nasks and third of the Gathic division (see Bk. VIII, Chap. I, 9, 12). It is a second commentary on the Gåthas, devoting a fargard to each hâ of the Gâthas and to each Gathic formula, as in the Sadkar Nask, but beginning with an extra fargard about the birth and calling of Zaratust. Its chief object appears to be the quotation of texts, both from the Gathas and from sources no longer known.
? Here written asra paitos (B) and asrapaitis (K) in Pahlavi, which, no doubt, stand for Av. aethra paitis, Pers. hêrbad, 'a Zoroastrian priest.' This name may either refer to the general subject of the fargard, or have been the first word of its Avesta text; as it seems not intended to quote any section of the Yasna, although the guardian spirits of the priests are reverenced in Yas. XXVI, 7, 8, before commencing the recitation of the Gathas.
8 Av. Maid hyô-maungha; he was first cousin of Zaratûst, and also his first disciple (see Bd. XXXII, 2, 3; Zs. XI, 10 n).
* B has at the birth of his life. * B has ham-vîsagih, Kham-disagîh.
• Assuming that vagâ no stands for vag dân, which word occurs in § 4, according to K.
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| SR No. | 007672 |
| Book Title | Zend Avesta Part 02 |
| 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 |