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.
fession of the religion of the Mazda-worshippers would be destroyed, that is, the religion would not have become progressive, and no one would be after the benefiters. k. But, owing to that love, O Zaratûst! the religion of the Mazda-worshippers becomes progressive 1 even then up to the production of the renovation of the universe, even then until the perpetual life of the existences, even then till the raising up of the dead, and even then up to the full atonement of the spirits.'
I. About being despised in hell; the wicked are scornful to a wicked one, and to the spirits apart from the wicked ; and it is the creator who, even after saving the others from hell, and the three nights stewing in hell?, is to cause the preservation of them also-after those three nights-from that misery, and every one attains to happiness. m. This, too, that Zaratůst enquired of Adharmazd thus : *How have the ignorant demons, O Adharmazd! ever been good rulers 8? How do they think of them in the world thus, that their happiness arose from them ?' n. And Adharmazd spoke thus :
They have been demons, O Zaratūst! and evilruling; not well-ruling, even for a reward, do they produce the work of righteousness
0. Perfect righteousness is excellence.
See Pahl. Yas. XLIII, 15 d, 17 d. · The three nights' final punishment of those worthy of death, to be inflicted at the time of the resurrection (see Bd. XXX, 13, 16). See Pahl. Yas. XLIII, 20 a.
• Ibid. 20 e.
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