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.
you are unobservant.' 7. Even so Zaratust proclaimed life free from the control of the demons, when this same saying was uttered by him, thus : * As a spiritual lord is my desire;' and, at the falling of the demons upon Zaratūst for his destruction, an incarnation (tana) of its spiritual existence stood opposed to them, in that weapon proceeding from Zaratůst, to keep them back.
8. And he spoke again thus: The religion of the benefiters progresses there in him who, through good actions, has joyfulness owing to his righteousness";' and, through that saying, an arrow reaches spiritually unto the demons, equal to ten of that which was first spoken, and, at the falling of the demons upon Zaratust for his destruction, it stood spiritually opposed to them, and that weapon proceeding from Zaratast kept them back.
9. The third utterance of Zaratust, on the bringing forth of his arms, was thus: “That which the first existence produced is to be so practised, with attention, through actions to be concealed by him who is a priestly authority (rado) ?;' and through that saying an arrow reaches spiritually unto the demons, equal to one hundred of that which was first spoken, and, at the falling of a demon upon Zaratûst for his death, its spirit, as a sacred being, kept the demon away from Zaratust.
10. And, when the whole body of Zaratûst was brought forth, trouble (âsipo) fell among the demons, and the demons rushed back to hell in haste; light
This is the Pahlavi version of Yas. XXXIV, 13 b, without the glosses.
2 This is the Pahlavi version of Yas. XXXIII, 1 a, b, without the glosses and incomplete.
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