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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abode of Vistâsp, whose resources (afzâr) are cattle and who is far and widely famed, with a view to his reliance upon this religion (that is, till he shall stand up for this religion); and, as regards the answering words of the righteous Zaratûst of the Spitâmas, to approve the nature (zag sân) of those words.” 76. The archangels proceeded unto the abode of Vistâsp, whose resources are cattle and who is far and widely famed; their radiance, in that lofty residence, seemed to him, that Vistâsp, a heaven of complete light, owing to their great power and triumph ; this was so that, when he thus looked upon it, the exalted Kai-Vistâsp trembled, all his courtiers (pêsako) trembled, all his chieftains (pado) were confused, and he of the superior class was like the driver of a chariot-horse.
77. ‘And the fire of Allharmazd spoke, in the words of heroes, thus : “Fear not, for there is no fearing for thee, thou exalted Kai-Vistâsp! they have not come for alarming thy abode, as a reminder of the deputed envoys of Argâsp?; there have not come, for alarming thy abode, the two Khyốns of
Av. Aregad-aspa, king of the Huyaonas (Pahl. Khyôns), mentioned in Yt. V, 109, 113, 116; XVII, 50; XIX, 87. His war with Vistâsp, for the purpose of compelling the latter to abjure his new religion, is described in the Yadkâr-î Zarîrân (see Geiger in Sitzungsberichten der p-p. und h. Classe der k. bayer. Akad. der Wiss. 1890, Bd. II, pp. 43-84). Argâsp sends two envoys, Vîdrafs the wizard and Namkhvâst of the Hazârs, to demand Vistâsp's submission; this is refused defiantly by advice of Zarîr, the king's brother; and both nations prepare for war. When the Irânians meet the Khyôns, Vistasp consults his vazir Gâmâsp, who prognosticates prodigious slaughter. And, after losing most of their chieftains (including twenty-three brothers and sons of Vistâsp), the Irânians utterly annihilate the Khyôn army. This war is called the 'war of the religion' in Bd. XII, 33 ; Byt. III, 9.
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