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 I, 25-31.
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and that life' came to him from the creator through the blessing of Frédun.
29. And it came, through his mother, to a descendant of Frèdûn and descendant of Alrik; it proceeded with the angel Nêryôsang to Mânûskihars, and its entire progress was in the lineage of Airik. 30. And it came to Mânûskihar, the monarch of Iran, and through it many wonder-wrought actions were performed by him; he smote Salm and Tog in revenge for Afriks, he was a responder to the superfluities of foreign countries, he arranged the realm of Iran, improved and fertilised the land of Irân, and made the country of Irân victorious over foreigners.
31. At another time it came to Adzôbô, son of Tûmâsp“, a descendant of Mânûskihar the monarch of Irân; and, through that destiny and glory combined, the new-born came to mature activity and the proportions of a man during childhood, through agriculture; he disclosed his lamenting mother to the countries of Irân, he marched on to the destruction of foreigners, to drive out and make them outcast from the land of Irân; he also defeated the village-terrifier of the country of Irân, the wizard who frightened his father and fellow-immortals, Frangrâsîyâk of Tûr ; and he developed and ferti
1 See note 5 on preceding page.
? Here spelt Nêresang and Mânûsîr. The former is the usual spiritual messenger of Adharmazd; and for the lineage of the latter see Bd. XXXI, 9-14. It appears that the glorious destiny was preserved by the angel Nêryôsang for some generations, and he conveyed it to the grandfather of Mânûskîhar (see Chap. II, 70).
3 The three sons of Fredûn, among whom he divided his dominions, with the usual result of triumvirates.
• See Bd. XXXI, 23; XXXIV, 6.
5 See Yt. XIX, 56-64, 77, 82, 93, and Bd. XXXI, 14, 15, 18, 21, 22, 35; XXXIV, 6; where the Av. form Frangrasyan is further
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