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.
and the disposition and life of the sky. [&c., very nearly the same as in II, 6 to] Bavaftal, and in Persian the name of that book is Favâmsa'hân, that is, instruction arises therefrom for the moderns.
8. The name of the seventh Nask is Pagam, and that is of twenty-two subdivisions; its description is about quadrupeds and how they are made lawful, which is lawful [&c., as in II, 7, to] for the sake of a season-festival, and how it is necessary to perform whatever is in a season-festival; the expense of a season-festival (&c., as in II, 7, to] high-priests, and a description of the clothing for a righteous gift, so that they may obtain recompense in the end from heaven.
9. The eighth Nask is the Ratustâyi, and that is of fifty subdivisions; its purport is about the affairs of the king and obedience, cities constructed and made magnificent, birds, animals, and fish, and whatever is Ormazd's, besides the creatures of Aharman; (&c., as in II, 8].
10. The name of the ninth book is Baris, and that is of sixty subdivisions, and about descriptions of kings and judges, and an investigation of their authority; also the relations of a peasant [&c., as in II, 9, to] deceit, and telling lies.
11. The name of the tenth book is Kaskantz, and that is of sixty subdivisions, about the advantage (fajl) of natural wisdom and knowledge as distinguished from acquired knowledge, that is, the knowledge born from the mother, and the knowledge which they learn by instruction ; doctrine about purity and truth, and anything [&c., as in II, 10, to] how it occurs.
12. The name of the eleventh Nask is Vistâsp,
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