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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SELECTIONS OF ZÂD-SPARAM.
organization is being converted again into a spiritual nature, became manifest on the earth, first through Spendarmad 1 and afterwards through Allharmazd, like the reception of a child by mothers and delivering it back to the fathers.
3. The manifestation of the religion through Spendarmad was at that time when Frâsiyâv 2 kept back the water from the country of Irân, and brought the water again; in damsel form she was a speaker for its manifestation, in reply to foreigners, at the house of Mânûskihars, the monarch of the country of Irân. 4. She was also dressed, and wore radiant clothing which shone out on all sides for the length of a Hâsar“, which is a distance, like a Parasang; and, tied on her waist, she wore a golden sacred girdle which was the religion of the Mazdaworshippers itself.
5. As to the belt of the religion, it is that to which are connected the thirty-three fetters upon the thirtythree sins 6, according to which all sin is divided; so that (ka) the damsels, by whom the tied sacred girdle of Spendarmad was seen, have become impetuous (taftigó) after that for a tied girdle, on account of its seeming beautiful.
6. And this was the motherhood which is supplied through Spendarmad, as a gift, in the year 528
1 The female archangel who has special charge of the earth and virtuous women (see Dk. VII, ii, 19 n).
2 See Dk. VII, i, 31; and regarding his irrigation canals, see Bd. XX, 17, 34; XXI, 6.
3 See Dk. VII, i, 29.
• A thousand steps of the two feet, or Roman mile; see Bd. XXVI, 1.
0 Thirty sins are detailed in Mkh. XXXVI, and thirty-three good works in XXXVII (see S. B. E., vol. xxiv, pp. 71-75).
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