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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APPENDIX TO THE BUNDAHIS.
bank of the water of Dâitih in the middle of the earth; and its distance from Gâyômard being as much as its own height, it was also distant from the bank of the water of Dâttih by the same measure; and it was a female, white and brilliant as the moon. 7. As the adversary came upon it Aûharmazd gave it a narcotic, which is also called 'bang,' to eat, and to rub the 'bang' before the eye", so that the annoyance from the assault of crimes may be less; it became lean and ill, and fell upon its right breast3 trembling.
8. Before the advance to Gâyômard, who was then about one-third the height of Zaratust, and was brilliant as the sun, Aûharmazd forms, from the sweat on the man, a figure of fifteen years, radiant and tall, and sends it on to Gâyômard; and he also brings his sweat on to him as long as one Yathâahu-vairyô is being recited. 9. When he issued from the sweat, and raised his eyes, he saw the world when it was dark as night'; on the whole earth were the snake, the scorpion, the lizard (vazak), and noxious creatures of many kinds; and so the other kinds of quadrupeds stood among the
1 The Dâîtîk river (see Bund. XX, 13).
'This is a misunderstanding of the corresponding phrase in Bund. III, 18. The narcotic here mentioned is usually prepared from the hemp plant, and is well known in India and the neighbouring countries.
3 See Bund. IV, 1.
The word which, as it stands in the MS., looks like hômanâe, is here taken as a transposition of min khvâe, in accordance with Bund. III, 19; but it may be a variant of anumâe, 'embryo,' in which case the translation should be, 'forms an embryo into the shape of a man of fifteen years.'
Or it may be 'sleep,' both here and in § 9.
See Bund. I, 21.
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7 Bund. III, 20.
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