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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DÎNKARD, BOOK VII.
man who will be the righteous Zaratûst; which of you will undertake his destruction, all the while that he exists for mankind, so as to make him more contemptibly impotent?' 44. Kêshmak', astute in evil, growled thus : 'I will undertake his destruction.' 45. Astute in evil, he rushed away with thrice fifty of the demons who are Karaps of Kêshmak; and that village was partly uprooted and partly destroyed 2 by him, fellow-workers were ruined, and the number of fellow-eaters of broken victuals, attending the great, was not broken up, among whom was he that had repelled his authority.
46. It is declared that, afterwards, Pôrúshâspô asked again for that Hôm from Dakdâûb, and he pounded it, and with that cows' milk 3, into which the nature of the body of Zaratast had come, he here mingled the guardian spirit of Zaratûst, and the nature of the body came at once into union with it.
47. One marvel is this which is declared, that Pôrûshâspô and Dûkdâub drank up that Hôm and milk, when they were mingled together and announced to Allharmazd; and here occurred a combination of the glory, guardian spirit, and bodily nature of Zaratūst into a manchild. 48. And a great wonder is manifested to both of them, through that which revelation mentions thus: Thereupon, both have embraced the first time + with desire
The whirlwind demon; see Bd. XXVIII, 24. Compare Chap. IV, 61.
2 The usual effects of a hurricane.
9 The mingling of milk with pounded Hôm still constitutes part of the Parsi ceremonial ; see Haug's Essays, 3rd ed., p. 405.
• Pahl. kola 2 lâlâ fratûm vapdido havând.'
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