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.
assistance, so that you are worshipping Mazda ani you eat; I am in neighbourliness before that, until the time when you exclaim : ‘Mine are the serpent and toad.'
11.“"Contentedly the Mazda-worshippers slaughter cattle, contentedly the cattle of the Mazda-worshippers let them butcher', and contented are the cattle when they do not butcher them; contentedly the Mazda-worshippers eat cattle, and contented are the cattle when they eat them. 12. And then, when there are spirits, the slaughterers and whatever they slaughter, the butchers and whatever they butcher, and the eaters and whatever they eat are alike watched by them."
13. And this, too, it says, namely: “When that century fully elapses, which is the fifth in the second millennium as regards the religion of the Mazdaworshippers, then of all those who are upon the earth, the existences which are both wicked and righteous, two-thirds in the land of Irân are righteous and one-third wicked; and so likewise the Tūrânians and those who are around Irân remain non-Irânian around Irân; the chief increase in dwellings here below, of those in the embodied existence, remains just as now.'
14. And this, too, it says, namely: 'When that millennium has fully elapsed, which is the first of the religion of the Mazda-worshippers, what is the separation after the first century?' 15. And Adharmazd spoke thus : The sun conceals itself. 16. "And what is the separation after the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, or tenth
1 Assuming that bâr’zâvand stands for bûrînênd which occurs in $ 12.
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