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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II (37). The eighth of the good lands and countries which I, Ahura Mazda, created, was Urva of the rich pastures 1.
Thereupon came Angra Mainyu, who is all death, and he counter-created the sin of pride'.
12 (41). The ninth of the good lands and countries which I, Ahura Mazda, created, was Khnenta which the Vehrkânas inhabit.
FARGARD I.
Thereupon came Angra Mainyu, who is all death, and he counter-created a sin for which there is no atonement, the unnatural sin.
13 (45). The tenth of the good lands and countries which I, Ahura Mazda, created, was the beautiful Harahvaiti".
Thereupon came Angra Mainyu, who is all death, and he counter-created a sin for which there is no atonement, the burying of the dead".
14 (49). The eleventh of the good lands and countries which I, Ahura Mazda, created, was the bright, glorious Haêtumant".
1 Urva, according to Gr. Bd. Mêshan, that is to say Mesene (Meon), the region of lower Euphrates, famous for its fertility (Herodotos I, 193): it was for four centuries (from about 150 B.C. to 225 A.D.) the seat of a flourishing commercial state.
* The people of Mêshan are proud: there are no people worse than they' (Gr. Bd.)
Khnenta is a river in Vehrkâna (Hyrcania)' (Comm.); consequently the river Gorgân.
See Farg. VIII, 31-32.
• Harauvati; 'Apaxwoía; corrupted into Ar-rokhag (name of the country in the Arabic literature) and Arghand (in the modern name of the river Arghand-âb).
• See Farg. III, 36 seq.
The basin of the 'Erúunropos or Erymanthus, now Hermend, Helmend, that is to say, the region of Saistân.
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