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SELECTIONS OF ZÂD-SPARAM, IV, 9-v, 4.
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CHAPTER V. 1. When in like manner, and equally oppressively, as his (Adharmazd's) creatures were disfigured, then through that same deterioration his own great glory was exhibited; for as he came within the sky' he maintains the spirit of the sky, like an intrepid warrior who has put on metal armour?; and the sky in its fortress 3 spoke these hasty, deceitful words to Aharman, thus : 'Now when thou shalt have come in I will not let thee back;' and it obstructed him until Adharmazd prepared another rampart, that is stronger, around the sky, which is called 'righteous understanding' (ashộk â kâsih). 2. And he arranged the guardian spirits of the righteous who are warriors around that rampart, mounted on horses and spear in hand, in such manner as the hair on the head; and they acquired the appearance of prison guards who watch a prison from outside, and would not surrender the outer boundaries to an enemy descended from the inside.
3. Immediately, Aharman endeavours that he may go back to his own complete darkness, but he found no passage ; and he recapitulated, with seeming misgiving, his fears of the worthiness which is to arise at the appearance of the renovation of the universe at the end of the nine thousand years. 14. As it is said in the Gâthas, thus 8: 'So also
See Chap. III, 2.
* Compare Bund. VI, 2. • Or zodiacal signs,' for bûrgo means both. • Bund. VI, 3, 4.
This quotation from the Gâthas is from the Pahlavi Yas. XXX, 4, and agrees with the Pahlavi text, given in Dastůr Jám
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| SR No. | 007687 |
| Book Title | Sacred Laws of Aryas |
| 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 |