Sacred Laws of Aryas

SR No.: 007687
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Gorge Buhler
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1897
Total Pages: 1979
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 36 MB

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SELECTIONS OF ZÂD-SPARAM, 1, 4-14.
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(là barininam) during a period of struggle.', 10. And he demanded of him a period for friendship’, for it was seen by him that Aharman does not rely upon the intervention of any vigorous ones, and the existence of a period is obtaining the benefit of the mutual friendship and just arrangement of both; and he formed it into three periods, each period being three millenniums. 11. Aharman relied upon it, and Adharmazd perceived that, though it is not possible to have Aharman sent down, ever when he wants he goes back to his own requisite, which is darkness; and from the poison which is much diffused endless strife arises 2.
12. And after the period was appointed by him, he brought forward the Ahûnavar formula 3; and in his Ahồnavar these kinds of benefit were shown:13. The first is that, of all things, that is proper which is something declared as the will of Adharmazd; so that, whereas that is proper which is declared the will of Adharmazd, where anything exists which is not within the will of Adharmazd, it is created injurious from the beginning, a sin of a distinct nature. 14. The second is this, that'whoever shall do that which is the will of Adharmazd, his reward and recompense are his own; and of him who shall not do that which is the will of Adharmazd, the punishment at the bridge : owing thereto
· Bund. I, 17, 18.
? Or 'the poison of the serpent, which is much diffused, becomes endless strife.'
Bund. I, 21. • The word ân, those,' however, is probably a miswriting of the cipher for 'three.'
The Kinvad or Kînvar bridge (see Bund. XII, 7).
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