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.
day Dûrêsrôbôi the Karap, as it were from the same five brethren, came out to the house of Pôrdshaspô; and Pôrůshaspô placed a bowl (gamako) of mare's milk before him, and spoke to him thus : Consecrate it.
2. Zaratûst expostulated with Pôrůshaspô thus : "I will consecrate it.' 3. Pôrůshaspô spoke thus : 'He should consecrate, and the grace is to be offered up by you? ;' and as many as three times they mutually disputed.
4. Then up stood Zarátůst, and his right foot struck at the bowl and emptied it, and he spoke thus : 'I reverence righteousness, I reverence the righteous and the poor, men and women; do thou, O Pôrůshaspô! prepare a portion for him in whom there is worthiness.'
5. And Dûrêsrôbô spoke unto Zaratûst thus : 'As some of my portion of daily food was first thrown away by thee, it is I who will bring it on both thy lives, and will utterly destroy thee.' 6. Zaratûst spoke interruptingly 8 thus : With complete mindfulness I will look upon thee with both eyes, and will utterly destroy thee.'
7. And, for a long time, they constantly looked, one at the other, with unshrinking gaze; but the divine nature of Zaratûst is victorious over the witchcraft of that wizard, and Därêsrôbô is further disturbed; he also asked for his horse and spoke thus : 'On account of this boy, it is impossible for me to stay.'
1 So spelt in Zs., but Durâsrobo in Dk.; also the former has always Pôrůshaspô, but the latter Pôrůshâspô. Compare the same legend in Dk. VII, iii, 34-45.
? Pahl. vald aê yazêdo, afêd vậg dahisno. Or 'inwardly.'
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