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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OTHER DETAILS OF NASKS.
DINKARD.—BOOK III.
Chapter VII.
The ninth question. 1. Another apostate enquired thus: “When there is Mãthra that is said to be all in the words of Adharmazd to Zaratūst, whether it be in the words of Frashôstar and Gâmâsp?, or be in the words of Vohuman and the sacred beings, or be in words of theirs published before the time of Zaratůst, or even after that of Sênô “, is it to be considered by us, as to that which is relating to us, that what is the utterance of Allharmazd to Zaratust is only the Gâthic, and the rest is composed by Zaratūst and his disciples from the world, even statements due to a good inclination for conversion (vastakih)?'
2. The reply is that the other Mãthra which is separate from the Gâthas, if it be apart from the Gâthas, is still owing to the composition of the Yathâ-ahû-vairyô ; and the same separate Mãthra, which is from a witness about it, is the evidence with Adharmazd himself in vigorous omniscience and composition, and not owing to the knowledge of mankind, which shall not attain even to an atom of the atoms thereof. 3. The arising of the Mãthra, through the speaking of many voices, is not all the speaking of Adharmazd to Zaratůst through those
1 According to Peshotan's notation; the text followed is that of the MS. B, written A.D. 1659.
See Dk. VIII, Chap. XXXVIII, 68. * This seems a more likely reading than “Hôm' for the imperfect word so many
• See Chap. CXCVII, 6 n. See Dk. VIII, Chap. I, 7 n.
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