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.
in our district; do thou worship this of mine.' 36. A great marvel, owing to the sagacity of Zaratûst at a childish age, is just as revelation mentions that Zaratūst spoke thus : ‘I worship this, O father! it is not that which it is necessary for me to worship that he should worship.' 37. And Pôrúshâspô spoke thus: 'It is not that of mine thou worshippest, and it is that of mine he should worship. 38. As many as three times those persons (gabrâân) carried on those assertions; when up stood Zaratûst and spoke concerning them, and he broke forth with that eternal statement', namely: 'The righteous I reverence, men or women; the poor I reverence, men or women; not the wicked, men or women; when any one whatever shall join Pôrûshâspô, where he shall be celebrating worship, the worship shall then be suitable to the worshippers, that is, he shall worship that which it is necessary to worship.'
39. One marvel is this which is declared, that afterwards Dūrâsrôbô the Karap shouted to Zaratūst thus : 'Evil was thy reckoning 2 which, owing to the conduct of fate (bâhar), I, the foremost of the existences embodied in Râk and Nôdâr $, bring to thee; I am made further worthy where thy fate is carried away from me; now is the joy (parkân) which I convey to him through bringing it on, and this
intended, but rather some form of worship antecedent to Zoroastrian Mazda-worship which latter had not yet been established. The author of this legend must have supposed that it differed very little from the religion of Pôrůshâspô.
1 Reading sakhûn-i le y almin which is written in Pahlavi exactly like dashinô rigeld, 'the right foot.'
• Pahl. marako, possibly for marg, death.'' • See Chap. II, 51, note. • Probably referring to his companion Brâdrôk-rêsh who, accord
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