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.
21. This Avarethrabau, too, is an organizer whose righteous guardian spirit we reverence, and in memory of Mânûskîhar, the well-destined, and a progenitor of Atùrpad!, it says that 'only from him comes Avarethrabau;' and then also arises this one of the adversaries of the religion, the apostate of apostates, whom they have even called the Mazdaglike (Mazdagig-ik) ? 22. As it says this, too, about them, namely: "This religion of mine thou dost survey with thoughts of spiritual life, thou dost very thoroughly inspect it, O Zaratůst! when many, aware of apostates, call the performance of righteousness and even the priesthood innocence, and few are frank and practising it. 23. In the revelation of the Mazda-worshippers is this, namely: 'Thoroughly look into revelation, and seek a remedy for them and any whatever of them who have become disturbing in the embodied existence, and uncaptivated by the orthodox (âyin-a û mônd) righteousness which is owing to the perfect existences; and so they divide the religion of the Mazda-worshippers through division of race, they speak regarding the action of their own followers, and give the endowment to their own. 24. They grant supplies of food, so that they may say the food is proportional to the hunger; they speak of procreation, and say that they say lineage is through the mothers; and they approve of wolfishness, so that they would act something like
bangh, son of Râstare-vaghent of Yt. XIII, 106, better known as Zaratûst, son of Atûrpad in his old age, for whom the Andar'z-î Âtarpâd-î Mâraspendân was written.
1 Whose pedigree is traced back to Manûskîhar in Bd. XXXIII, 3.
? Probably some disciple of Mânih, the heretic who had been put to death A.D. 276-7. Mazdag was put to death A.D. 528. See S.B.E., vol. xxxvii, pp. 257 n, 278 n.
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