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 III, 52-60.
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55. And that man enquired of him thus : Who art thou; from whom of them art thou ? ?' He replied: 'I am Zaratust ? of the Spitamas.
56. The words of Vohûmanồ were: 'O Zaratûst of the Spitâmas! about what is thy foremost distress (that is, for what is thy need when thou becomest quite distressed); about what is thy foremost endeavour; and for what is the tendency of thy desire (lak kâmako-dahisnih)?' 57. The reply of Zaratûst was thus : ‘About righteousness, I consider my foremost distress ; about righteousness my foremost endeavour; and for righteousness the tendency of my desire (that is, my need is for that thing, and I am a distressed seeker of righteousness).'
58. The words of Vohûmano were: 'O Zaratûst of the Spitamas ! that which is righteousness is existing (that is, a real thing is, as it were, that which is righteousness), so that whatever is that which is righteousness is thus what is one's own. 59. And Zaratust spoke thus: “That which is righteousness exists, and concerning that I am completely clear and aware; but where and how is that radiance which is that whose arrival is through Vohûmanô.'
60. And Vohûmanô spoke to him thus : 'O Zaratûst of the Spitâmas! deposit this one garment which thou carriest, so that we may confer with him by
i See Pahl. Yas. XLII, 7 c (Sp.).
According to the numbering of the folios in the old Bombay MS., written in 1659, nine folios were here separated from it last century. They contained the text as far as the end of Chap. IV, and the first eight of them were found at Naosâri about twenty years ago and copied. But all Indian copies, written before that time, omit this mislaid text. See S. B. E., vol. xxxvii, pp. xxxvi, xxxvii.
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