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quarter; many troops and much power were also maintained by him, and the multitude (mar) told him they would seize the great one from him who is little.
8. But the progeny of Adrvâstâ-dang the Tür, the · scanty giver, spoke thus : 'Should we for that speech destroy him, this great one who mingles together those propitious words for us—where we are thus without doubt as to one thing therein, such as nextof-kin marriage, that it is not necessary to contract it-it would make us ever doubtful whether it might be necessary to contract it.'
9. And Adrvâstâ-dang the Tûr, the scanty giver, spoke thus : 'Thou shalt not destroy that man whom mine eyes have seen as the most loving-eyed of the whole embodied existence; he will attain strength, for it has not seemed to me, when thou destroyest him on this account, that wisdom has arisen for a long time; so that no rule (âhanko) of wisdom will arise, in this earth, which is so counselling (hangamanig) as this one is (that is, when they destroy a man who is counselling, wisdom will not arise for a long while).'
10. Aûrvâstâ-dang the Tûr, the scanty giver to his own people, also spoke thus: 'For me thou art a pure man who is counselling.'
11. And Zaratûst spoke thus: 'I shall not always be that quiet speaker, byl whom that I have mentioned is the most propitious thing to be obtained ; and of interfering a speaking and managing the temper there is a next-of-kin marriage, and the high
i Or.from.' • It may be 'parenthetical or ambiguous.'
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| SR No. | 007672 |
| Book Title | Zend Avesta Part 02 |
| 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 |