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 XXIII, 6-10.
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of Kundah" is attracted; in the thirtieth year the Khyồns a arrive, who make an incursion (vardako) into the countries of Irân, owing to the Kavigs, those who are more of their own race; and in the fortieth year Vohûnêm, son of Avarôstar 3, is born.
9. In the forty-seventh year Zaratust passes away, who attains seventy-seven years and forty days in the month Ardavahistò, on the day Khûr 4 ; and for eight rectified (vêhikako) months, till the month Dadvô and day Khûr, he should be brought forward as to be reverenced.
10. In the same month Ardavahistô, in the sixtythird 6 year, Frashộstar passed away, and in the sixty-fourth year Gâmâsp?, the same as became the priest of priests after Zaratûst; in the seventy-third year Hangâûrûsh, son of Gâmâsp 8 ; in the eightieth year Asmộk-khanvatô , and also in the eightieth
i Or Kanîh which is the name of a demon (see Sg. XVI, 13, 16, 18, 19); but such an identification is uncertain.
? Av. Huyaona of Yt. IX, 30, 31; XVII, 50, 51. Compare Dk. VII, iv, 77, 83, 84, 87-90; V, 7.
o Av. gen. 'Vohu-nemang, hô Avâraostrôis' of Yt. XIII, 104. • The eleventh day of the second month. BT has 4 3d, and the date is lost in the other MS. authority. But 43d is highly improbable for two reasons: first, it would make this date the only one out of chronological order in the series here given ; secondly, it would render it inconsistent with the statement, in Dk. VII, vi, 12, that two priests came, from other regions, to ask Frashộstar about the religion, fifty-seven years after it had been accepted by Zaratůst. By substituting 63d (the Pahlavi cipher most likely to be corrupted into 430) both these inconsistencies are removed.
• See Dk. VII, vi, 12; V, ii, 12. ? See Dk. V, ii, 12; iii, 4. * Av. gen. Hang, haurushô Gâmâspanahê' of Yt. XIII, 104.
• Av. gen. Asmo-hvanvato' of Yt. XIII, 96, and Westergaard's Yt. XXII, 37.
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