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

Page 2066

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DÎNKARD, BOOK V.
proper affection, proper praise, proper modesty, observance of hope, liberality, truth, generosity, good friendship, and other capability, glory, and proper duty are more particularly included for Fravâk !, and again altered for frontier peoples.
2. Such-like goodness and glory, again, through selection from a promiscuous origin-even till the coming on of various new contaminations, from the demons, among the children of Fravâk—were for Hâôshâng and Vâêgered?, as Hâôshầng through superior glory was ruler of the world, and Vâêgered through provincial government (da hyûkânih) became the cultivator and cherisher of the world ; and their well-destined descendants 3 aggrandized the race of the monarchs among the well-born provincial governors (da hyûkân).
3. In union, such-like glory and goodness proceeded, mutually connected, in various ages as settled by the annals (mâdigân), and the frontiers of Atûr are penetrated; also in various annals there were in succession such men as Tâkhmôrup, Yim, Frédûn the Aspigân, and Aîrîk of Irân, the progenitor of Mânūs, Mânûs-khvârnar, and Mânùskihar 6.
4. And, besides including this one, who was a monarch of superior glory, and other monarchs such as are also in the same race ®, the Kayâns? were
1 Son of Sîyâmak; he was progenitor of the fifteen undeformed races of mankind (see Bd. XV, 25, 30, 31). ? Dk. VII, i, 16-18.
SK43 has children.' 4 Probably Assyria; but it is possible to read atval as Ar. aival, and to translate 'ancient frontiers.'
For the foregoing names see Dk. VII, i, 19-30; ii, 70. 6 Such as Aůzôbô in Dk. VII, i, 31.
? From Kaî-Kobâd to Kaf-Khởsro, as stated in Dk. VII, i, 33-40.
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