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.
to the water ; she that is the mother of that famous Adshedar, and her former lineage is from Vôhùrôkô-i Frahânyân? in the family of Isadvâstar, the son of Zaratūst that is brought forth by Arang. 56. Then she sits in that water and drinks it, and she kindles in a high degree those germs which were the third of the last that the righteous Zaratust was dropping forth originally, and they introduce that son whose name is the Developer of Righteousness 2. 57. Though she is fifteen years old, the girl (kanig) has not before that associated with men 3 ; nor afterwards, when she becomes pregnant, has she done so before the time when she gives birth.
58. When that man becomes thirty years old, the sun stands still in the zenith (balisto) of the sky for the duration of ten days and ten nights, and it arrives again at that place where it was first appointed by allotment, where it occupies one finger-breadth out of the four finger-breadths, and it shines over all the regions which are seven. 59. So, too, O Zaratūst ! of them themselves, their declaration is thus, that they know that the separation of the millennium, which this religion has heard about by listening, is thus; and of those who do not even then know, that it is something which is different.
60. Then, when that man becomes thirty years old, he confers with the archangels, the good rulers and good providers; on the morrow, in the daylight of the day, it is moreover manifest, when the embodied existence is thus undistressed — without
1 See Yt. XIII, 97.
9 The Pahlavi interpretation of Allshedar which is an imperfect transcript of the Av. Ukhsh yad-ereta of Yt. XIII, 128.
8 Pahl. levatá gabrââno barâ vepayîdo.'
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