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 IX, 11-22.
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century ?' 17. And Adharmazd spoke thus : 'The sun conceals itself.'
18. Then, when thirty winters of the tenth century are unelapsed (arânako), a maiden, who is Shapirabû !, walks up to the water; she that is the mother of that good Adshedar-mâh, and her former lineage is from Vohu-rókô-1 Frahânyân 8 in the family of Isadvâstar, the son of Zaratûst that is brought forth by Arang. 19. Then she sits in that water and drinks it, and she kindles in a high degree those germs which were the second of the last that the righteous Zaratûst was dropping forth originally, and they introduce that son whose name is the Developer of Worship + (that is, he augments liberality). 20. Though fifteen years old, the damsel (zihầnako) has not before that associated with men ; nor yet afterwards, when she becomes pregnant, has she done so before the time when she gives birth.
21. When that man becomes thirty years old, the sun stands still in the zenith of the sky for the duration of twenty days and nights ®, and it shines over all the regions which are seven. 22. So, too, the declaration of them themselves is that they know
1. Having a good father,' the Zvâris of Av. Vanghu-fedhri, Yt. XIII, 142. ? See Chap. I, 42.
See Chap. VIII, 55-57. • The Pahlavi interpretation of Allshedar-mâh which is an imperfect transcript of the Av. Ukhshyad-nemangh of Yt. XIII, 128.
Compare the summary in Dk. VIII, xiv, 13, as follows: The arrival of Adshedar-mâh, son of Zaratûst, at the end of the second millennium ; information about him and his time, and the destroyers of the organizers who were within the millennium of Allshedar.
• The MS. omits a clause here, which occurs in Chap. VIII, 58, possibly by mistake, as part of it is given in Chap. X, 19.
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