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

Page 1944

DÎNKARD, BOOK VII.
creator, it is declared in the good religion, that the combined titles of prophet (vakhshvar), acceptor, and promoter are enumerated of them.
9. As Gâyômard passed away, it came to Masyê and Masyâôi?, the second of worldly beings who were the progeny of Gâyômard the first; and it is declared, by the word of Adharmazd, that he spoke to them, when they had been produced by him, thus : 'You are the men I produce, you are the parents of the parents of all embodied existence; and so do you men not worship the demons, for the possession of complete mindfulness is the best thing produced by me for you, so that you may fully observe duty and ordinances with complete mindfulness.' 10. And the bountifulness of Adharmazd was extolled by them, and they went on with their own duty; they also performed the will of the creator, enjoyed the advantage of the many duties of the world, and practised next-of-kin marriage for procreation, union, and the complete progress of the creations in the world, which are the best good works of mankind. 11. The creator showed them the sowing of corn, as declared in the words of Adharmazd thus : ‘This is thine, O Masyê! which is an ox; thine, too, is this corn; and thine those other appliances; henceforth thou shouldst know them well.'
This must have also occurred twice in a previous copy of the MS. in $ 28, where the word is written gân, life,' in the MS. B. In S. B.E., vol. xxxvii, Dk. VIII, xiii, 20, vakhsh has been erroneously translated word.'
The glorious destiny. $$ 9 and 10 have been previously translated in S. B. E., vol. xviii, pp. 411, 412.
Literally 'man and woman' who grew up as plants from the earth fertilized by Gâyomard, the prototype of the human race; see Bd. XV, 1-5.
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