Zend Avesta Part 03

SR No.: 007673
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: L H Mills
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1887
Total Pages: 2618
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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YASNA XXXI.
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his faith), and with devoted mind and heart? (But without hindrance from this striving, or pausing with feeble search?, our) Piety steadilys questions the two spirits* (not here on earth) but there in the spiritworld) where (they dwell as) in their home.
13. (Yea, my Piety questions searchingly, for Thou, O Maker! hast Thy view on all; we cannot question lightly.) What questions are asked which are opene (permitted to our thoughts), or what questions (are asked) which are furtive? (hiding themselves from the light), or (what decision soever we may make, and the man) who for the smallest sin binds on the heaviest penance, on all with Thy glittering eye(s) as a righteous guard Thou art gazingo!
1 Avo zak libbemman.
? See verse 13. * Pavan hagisno î: the Persian MS. (Haug XII, b) transliterates khêzisno: Ner, has mano-utthânena (sic). Or, immediately.'
• The evil as well as the good spirit is questioned. The two spirits of Y. XXX, 3-6 were here inspiring the conflict.
o The Pahlavi unvaryingly in the sense of mihâno (-as gâs tamman yehevûnêd/]; Ner. paralokanivâsân. See Y. XXX, 9; XXXIII, 9 ; XXXIV, 6. A questioning which was lightly made would indicate a willingness to tamper with error. The Persian MS. following the Pahlavi has: Anga bâng i buland än i durûgh guftâr (Ganâ Mînû] wa ân ham i râst guftâr [Hôrmuzd), &c. But Neryosangh is more accurate or literal : Atra bumbâm* karoti santar gagati), mithyâvaktâ vâ satyavaktâ vâ, &c. • Pavan zak i ashkarako.
? Nihânîk. & Thou seest even the questions and decisions of our thoughts as to matters which are simple or difficult, permitted or occult.
. I have not followed what may yet possibly be a valuable and correct hint of tradition. I render Neryosangh : He who asks through what is open through righteousness), or he who asks through what is secret through sin); or he (also) who through, or on account of, a little sin which has been committed, commits the great one to secure a purification; (that is, who for the sake of purification necessary on account of a little sin which has been committed, commits a greater one, in order that the first may not
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