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 IV, 16-23.
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worthy of death ;' for even so it is, and for this reason he becomes worthy of death, because the existence of the religion is known to him.” 20. What I tell thee, O Adrvâstâ-dang, thou Tûr and scanty giver! is that thou art a stricken supplicant for righteousness, a producer of lamentation for the souls of Tanápühar sinners worthy of death.'
21. One prodigy of the demons is specified, who was the enemy of whatever sacred beings there are, a Karap, Vaêdvõist' by name, of those unsanctified (ayastân) by Adharmazd?. 22. And Allharmazd spoke thus: 'I so befriend that man, O Zaratûst ! who is put forward by me over the creatures, whom thou shalt invite (kh vânês), I who am Adharmazd, because I am through righteousness opposed to harm (that is, through virtue I keep harm away from the creatures), and the archangels are opposed to harm. 23. Therefore do thou proceed, 0 Zaratûst ! and thou shalt demand from him for me (that is, keep as my property) a hundred youths of vigour (tôsh tal) 3, girls, and teams of four horses ; so do thou speak to him thus: “O Vêdvoist! Adharmazd demands from thee a hundred youths of vigour, girls, and teams of four horses; if thou givest them
Here written in Pâzand, but the Pahlavi form, Vêdvoîst, occurs in §§ 23, 24.
? Or of the non-worshippers of Allharmazd.'
& For an instance of gifts of slaves see the Pahlavi inscription on an engraved stone from Baghdad, in Indian Antiquary, vol. xi, p. 224, 11. 2, 3 of inscription : kevan bîdan va-kanîgako ... lakhvâr . . . shedrûnam ... va-zak shibâ rîdo va-shibâ kanîgakõân shedrünt:'-- Now ... I send back a slave-boy and slavegirl ... and those seven slave-boys and seven slave-girls are sent.' This inscription was probably engraved in the seventh century, judging from the forms of the letters.
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