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DINKARD, BOOK IX. drigaovê va hy01: who gives delights (vayagano) to him who is a right-living poor man2-preservation from the destroyer, and the consummation of every happiness.
2. It is perfect excellence that is righteousness.
CHAPTER LXIX. 1. About a selection from the whole Yast: referring to the developer (vakhshinidàr-hômônd).
2. Those are beneficial who increase for the developer, that is, they shall occasion benefit (nêvakih) for him who would occasion that benefit which is for others 4. 3. Thus the righteous man who produces perfect thought is he who comes upon it through Vohůman, and the benefit of him who is an open annoyer &—the righteous man who is a smiter of the wicked, and who developes as to what is Adharmazd's and as to what is Zaratûst's—is that he slays in moderation.
4. Regarding him who is an oppressive man who is righteous, the reply spoken is thus: “The reward of the smiter and developer—that man of whom one
See Yas. LIII, 9 d. See Pahl. Yas. LII, 9 d, and Chaps. XLV, 10, XLVII, 17.
The twenty-first Nask, or original Yasna (see Bk. VIII, Chap. XLVI, 1). It is not very clear, from this chapter and from what is stated about it in Chap. I, 2, whether this selection was compiled by the author of the Dînkard, or by some earlier writer. So far as its statements have yet been traced, nearly all of them originate in the Gâthas, or in the Yasna Haptanghâiti ; but § 45 quotes a passage from the Bako Nask (Yas. XIX).
• Compare Pahl. Yas. XLII, 1 a.
o Compare Pahl. Yas. XXVIII, 2 a, where J2, Pt4, Mf4 have barâ ye hamtûnânê pavan Vohûman.
. Compare Pahl. Yas. XLII, 8 b.
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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 |