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.
16. Zaratûst also spoke thus : 'Adharmazd enquired of me thus: “O Zaratust! when thou hast come away to us, among the spiritual lords, who of the people in thy material existence was the protector of the powerful men who are warriors, that was most seeking benefit, most seeking cattle, most extensively associating, most fully-supplying (that is, he gives out most things), and most hospitable (that is, one saw the door of a prince's (khidivo) treasury)?” I replied to him thus : “Aûrvâstâ-dang the Târ, the scanty giver.”
17. 'And he spoke in reply to me thus : "Him, O Zaratûst! thou shalt attract, first of the men who are warriors, to thinking about, speaking about, and acting about this religion which is Adharmazd's and Zaratûst's. 18. If you attract him, O Zaratûst ! and he believes in it and also gives currency to this religion of thine, and sits before thee in discipleship, this that one calls discipleship of thine he shall undertake, and the religion he hears fully he shall propagate (růbâk vabidůnyên); he is also ever after, O Zaratûst ! the first of the men who are warriors, the one most seeking benefit, most seeking cattle, most extensively associating, and most hospitable of those who have yet been born and who will henceforth be born. 19. And if you do not attract him, O Zaratůst ! and he does not believe in it, nor gives currency to this religion of thine, nor hears it, nor even sits before thee, nor would sit before thee, so that it is obvious to me that he is not attracted, thou shalt speak unto him thus, o Zaratûst : 'Thou art a stricken supplicant for righteousness, and a producer of lamentation for the souls of Tanâpühar sinners
Literally most many-doored.'
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