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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CHAPTER LXVIII, 2-LXIX, 9.
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knows the smiting and developing—is the very evil reward of him who is wicked; just as his smiting, as an evil reward for him from those two spirits, is that very evil practice loved by him who is wicked ; even for this reason every righteous individual is Gathic, because, when privileged (pådôkhshâi), he who is wicked is thus he who is righteous, and also he who is privileged is unprivileged ?
5. Zaratūst proceeded with the smiting at the wicked, and as to that proceeding Adharmazd spoke thus : 'Thou shouldst thus proceed with smiting at the wicked by ordinance (dâ distân), because thus they have thee and the righteous of every kind as ruler. 6. Also through my decree (pavan-ik man vigir) one produces the ritual of ordeal, which realizes that which is real, so that one may make that which is dark fully light. 7. Thine, too, is so much the sovereignty of Adharmazd, thus through worship, that its requisite (kh vastako) privilege is thus maintained through virtue, because thou, who art thus, art more unconfined (anâkôsidar) to the world through the furtherance and development of righteousness; great, indeed, is he who trusts the righteous man for righteousness, and great is he who trusts the wicked man for wickedness.'
8. As to that utterance (farmâyisno) Zaratust spoke thus: 'An open annoyer is the righteous man-the benefiter disclosed by Adharmazd—that loves the embodied world of righteousness, and demands its reverence (tarsakayih) for the proportion of righteousness therein, that is, he knows the proportion of duty and good works.' 9. Re
* See Bk. VIII, Chap. I, 5 n.
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See Chap. LXI, 11.
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