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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SIKAND-GÛMÂNÍK VIGÂR.
of the infliction of its punishment. 100. And, ultimately, the compassionate creator, who is the forgiver of the creatures, does not leave any good creature captive in the hands of the enemyl. 101. But, one day, he saves even those who are sinful, and those of the righteous through atonement for sin, by the hands of the purifiers, and makes them proceed on the happy course which is eternal. :
102. The conclusion is this, that the creator is the healer and perfect ruler, the maintainer and nourisher, protecting and preserving the creatures 3 ; not a producer of the disease, a causer of the pain, and an inflicter of the punishment of his own creatures. 103. And it is more explicitly written below, with the arrangement of the two original evolutions 4, among the assertors of the non-existence of a sacred beings, and the contemplators of unity.
104. As ordered and requested by you it is provided (padarâst); do you direct and observe it with kind regards. 105. Because, as written above? by · us, I do not hold the station of teaching, but really that of learning. 106. Even this teaching of doctrines is that which was obtained by me, through the religion of wisdom *, from the writing (nipik) of Âtūr-pâdlyâvand", and is here indicated. 107. And his teachings
i Compare Chap. XII, 59. 9 Assuming that Pâz. gumê is a misreading of Huz. yôm-1.
Compare $ 61. • See $ 73 n, Chaps. V, 46-IX, 45. 5 Chap. V.
Chap. X.
? Chap. I, 44. 8 It is doubtful whether this dîni-i-khard was the name of a book now unknown, as the phrase admits of reasonable translation.
• This writer is also mentioned in Chaps. I, 38, IX, 2, X, 52, but his name has not yet been found elsewhere. As he does not
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