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 1957

CHAPTER 11, 4-9.
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is the glory of life apart from the body, so that all diligence devoid of this is only movement.'
6. And it is declared that the demons, on account of their defeat by that glory in maintaining adversity for the girl, were bringing on to that district three armaments (hêno), winter, the demon of pestilence, and oppressive enemies; and a suspicion was cast by them into the minds of those of the district, that this harm happened to the district owing to the witchcraft of this girl ; so that those of the district quarreled dreadfully with the parents, as to the witchcraft of antagonism in the girl, and about putting her out from that district.
7. And the father of that girl spoke even these words to those of the district, with much reason, about the unjust assertion of witchcraft relative to the girl, that is : 'When this girl was brought forth among those of mine, her whole destiny (vakhsh) was afterwards set forth by that manifest radiance of fire, where it brought out radiance from all over her in the dark night. 8. When this girl sits in the interior of the house, wherein there is no fire, and in the chamber (sarâi) of fire they increase its intensity (burzo), it is lighter there, where and when this girl sits, than there where they increase the intensity of the fire; one is dazzled by the radiance from her body, and that of a wizard would not have been so glorious.
9. Even then, owing to the influence (sârfnisno) of the demons, and the Kavig and Karap? of the
* Reading dârîh, but it may be gârîh for kârîh, producing.'
? The Karaps were apparently idolatrous priests, especially those before the conversion of Vistâsp by Zaratûst; one being called a wizard' in Chap. III, 5, 42-44, another 'unsanctified' in IV, 24,
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