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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INTRODUCTION.
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this place, as explained in $ 54, with the effect of postponing the end of the millennium. It then proceeds to finish the chronology in its own fashion ; mentioning only three historical names, which are here added; the thirty-five omitted years being also inserted.]
A. R. 268, B.C. 363. Accession of Dârâî (ibid.). , 280, B. C. 351. Accession of Dârâî, descendant of Dârâi
(ibid.). » 294, B.C. 337. Accession of Alexander' (ibid.). , 300, B. C. 331. Invasion by Alexander. Sênô's hundred
discipledom ends, the religion is disturbed, and the monarchy
contested (Zs. XXIII, 11, 12; AV. I, 2-6). , 308, B. C. 323. Death of Alexander (Bd. XXXIV, 8). „ 400, B.C. 231. Benightedness arises (Dk. VII, vii, 9). » 440-560, B.C. 191-71?. Orthodoxy is still upheld by four
successive high-priests (Dk. VII, vii, 8-10). , 800-950, A.D. 170-320. The ninth and tenth centuries are
represented as very evil and miserable (ibid. viii, 2-45, 61). » 971, A. D. 341, Allshedar is born (ibid. 55-57). , 1001, A.D. 371. Beginning of the eleventh millennium, when
the sun stands still for ten days, and Aushedar is thirty years
old and confers with the sacred beings (ibid. 58-60). , 1400-1500, A. D. 770-870. In this century the wizard
Mahrkas produces seven awful winters successively, in which most of mankind and animals perish, including himself (ibid.
ix, 3). „ 1971, A. D. 1341. Adshêdar-mâh is born (ibid. 18-20). , 2001, A.D. 1371. Beginning of the twelfth millennium, when
the sun stands still for twenty days, and Allshedar-mâh is thirty years old and confers with the sacred beings (ibid.
21-23). „ 2971, A. D. 2341. Sôshậns is born (ibid. x, 15-18). , 3001, A. D. 2371. Beginning of the preparation for the
Renovation, when the sun stands still for thirty days, and Sôshâns is thirty years old (ibid. 19); but another passage
(ibid. xi, 2) implies that this is the date of his birth. , 3028, A. D. 2398. The renovation of the universe occurs at
the end of the fifty-seventh year of Sôshâns (ibid. 4, 7).
· He became king of Macedon B. c. 336, and of Persia in 331.
· The erroneous dates in the Bundahis chronology (see $ 57) alter this period to B. C. 156–36.
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