Introduction. Chapter V. The Vendidad : * "The Zend Avesta, Part I (SBE04)", James Darmesteter, tr. [1880], CHAPTER V. THE VENDDD. 1. According to Parsi tradition the Venddd 3 is the only Nosk, out of the twenty-one, that was preserved in its entirety 4. This is a statement to which it is difficult to trust; for, if there is anything...
Vendidad. Fargard Iii. The Earth : * "The Zend Avesta, Part I (SBE04)", James Darmesteter, tr. [1880], FARGARD III. THE EARTH. I (1-6). The five places where the Earth feels most joy. II (7-11). The five places where the Earth feels most sorrow. III (12-35). The five things which most rejoice the Earth. IV (36-42). Corpses ought...
Vendidad. Fargard Ii. Yima : * "The Zend Avesta, Part I (SBE04)", James Darmesteter, tr. [1880], FARGARD II. YIMA ("G"AMSHD). This Fargard may be divided into two parts. First part (1-20). Ahura Mazda proposes to Yima, the son of Vvanghat, to receive the law from him and to bring it to men. On his refusal, he bids him keep...
Vendidad. Fargard Xxii : * "The Zend Avesta, Part I (SBE04)", James Darmesteter, tr. [1880], FARGARD XXII. Angra Mainyu creates 99,999 diseases: Ahura Mazda applies for healing to the holy word and to Airyaman. Airyaman is an old Indo-Iranian god: in the Rig-veda he is an ditya (Aryaman), who is seldom invoked alone, but...
Untitled : THE ZEND AVESTA, PART I Sacred Books Of The East, Vol. 4 TRANSLATED BY JAMES DARMESTETER [1880] This is part I of the Sacred Books of the East Zend Avesta translation. Title Page Contents INTRODUCTION Chapter I. The Discovery of the Zend-Avesta Chapter II. The Interpretation of the Zend-Avest...
Vendidad. Fargard Viii : * "The Zend Avesta, Part I (SBE04)", James Darmesteter, tr. [1880], FARGARD VIII. I (1-3). Purification of the house where a man has died. II (4-13). Funerals. III (14-22). Purification of the ways along which the corps-has been carried. IV (23-25). No clothes to be wasted on a corpse. V (26-32)...
Vendidad. Fargard X : * "The Zend Avesta, Part I (SBE04)", James Darmesteter, tr. [1880], FARGARD X. During the process of cleansing, the voice works with the hand. The spells which must be recited while the unclean one is cleansing himself have already been mentioned in the preceding Fargard, but we find here...
Vendidad. Fargard Xvii : * "The Zend Avesta, Part I (SBE04)", James Darmesteter, tr. [1880], FARGARD XVII. HAIR AND NAILS. Anything that has been separated from the body of man is considered dead matter (Introd. V, 12), and is accordingly supposed to fall into the possession of the demon and to become the abode of death...
Vendidad. Fargard Vi : * "The Zend Avesta, Part I (SBE04)", James Darmesteter, tr. [1880], FARGARD VI. I (1-9). How long the earth remains unclean, when defiled by the dead. II (10-25). Penalties for defiling the ground with dead matter. III (26-41). Purification of the different sorts of water, when defiled by the dead...
Vendidad. Fargard Xx. Thrita, The First Healer : * "The Zend Avesta, Part I (SBE04)", James Darmesteter, tr. [1880], FARGARD XX. THRITA, THE FIRST HEALER. Thrita was the first who drove back death and disease, as Ahura Mazda had brought to him down from heaven ten thousand healing plants that had been growing up around the tree of eternal life...
Vendidad. Fargard V : * "The Zend Avesta, Part I (SBE04)", James Darmesteter, tr. [1880], FARGARD V. This chapter and the following ones, to the end of the twelfth, deal chiefly with uncleanness arising from the dead, and with the means of removing it from men and things. The subjects treated in this Fargard are...
Vendidad. Fargard Xxi. Waters And Light : * "The Zend Avesta, Part I (SBE04)", James Darmesteter, tr. [1880], FARGARD XXI. WATERS AND LIGHT. I (1). Praise of the holy bull. II (2-3). Invocation addressed to rain as a healing power. III a (4-7). Joint invocation addressed to the waters and to the light of the sun. III b (8-11). Joint...
Introduction. Chapter I. The Discovery : * "The Zend Avesta, Part I (SBE04)", James Darmesteter, tr. [1880], p. xi INTRODUCTION. CHAPTER I. THE DISCOVERY OF THE ZEND-AVESTA. THE Zend-Avesta is the sacred book of the Parsis, that is to say, of the few remaining followers of that religion which feigned over Persia at the time when...
Vendidad. Fargard Xv : * "The Zend Avesta, Part I (SBE04)", James Darmesteter, tr. [1880], I (1-8). On five sins the commission of which makes the sinner a Peshtanu. II (9-19). On unlawful unions and attempts to procure miscarriage. III (20-45). On the treatment of a bitch big with young. IV (46-51). On the breeding...
Vendidad. Fargard Xiii. The Dog : * "The Zend Avesta, Part I (SBE04)", James Darmesteter, tr. [1880], FARGARD XIII. THE DOG. I (1-7). The dog of Ormazd and the dog of Ahriman. (a. 1-4). The dog Vanghpara ('the hedge-hog'). (b. 4-7). The dog Zairimyangura ('the tortoise'). II (8-16). Offences against the dog. III (17-19)...
Vendidad. Fargard Xviii : * "The Zend Avesta, Part I (SBE04)", James Darmesteter, tr. [1880], FARGARD XVIII. I (1-13). On the unworthy priest and enticers to heresy. II (14-29). The holiness of the cock. III (30-60). The four paramours of the Dru"g". IV (61-71). On unlawful lusts. The text and the Pahlavi commentary...
Title Page : * "The Zend Avesta, Part I (SBE04)", James Darmesteter, tr. [1880], THE ZEND-AVESTA PART I THE VENDDD TRANSLATED BY JAMES DARMESTETER Sacred Books Of The East, Volume 4. Oxford University Press [1880] Scanned and proofed , January-May, 2001, by John Bruno Hare. Formatted and additional proofing...
Vendidad. Fargard Xix : * "The Zend Avesta, Part I (SBE04)", James Darmesteter, tr. [1880], FARGARD XIX. I (1-11). Angra Mainyu attempts to kill Zarathu"s"tra, and, when he fails, tempts him. Zarathu"s"tra withstands both assaults with weapons both material and spiritual. II (I1-43). Zarathu"s"tra applies to Ahura Mazd...
Introduction. Chapter Iv. The Orig : * "The Zend Avesta, Part I (SBE04)", James Darmesteter, tr. [1880], CHAPTER IV. THE ORIGIN OF THE AVESTA RELIGION. 1. What was the religion of the Magi which we find reflected in the Avesta? and whence did it arise? Magism, in its general form, may be summed up as follows:-- The world, such as it...
Vendidad. Fargard Xiv : * "The Zend Avesta, Part I (SBE04)", James Darmesteter, tr. [1880], FARGARD XIV. This Fargard is nothing more than an appendix to the last clauses in the preceding Fargard ( 50 seq.) How the murder of a water dog may be atoned for is described in it at full length. As the water dog is the holiest...
Vendidad. Fargard Iv. Contracts And Outrages : * "The Zend Avesta, Part I (SBE04)", James Darmesteter, tr. [1880], FARGARD IV. CONTRACTS AND OUTRAGES. 1-16. Contracts (see Introd. V, 17):-- 2. Classification of contracts; 3-4. Damages for breach of contract; 5-10. Kinsmen responsible; 11-16. Penalties for breach of contract. 17-55. Outrages...
Vendidad. Fargard Xii : * "The Zend Avesta, Part I (SBE04)", James Darmesteter, tr. [1880], FARGARD XII. This chapter is found only in the Venddd Sdah; it is missing in the Zend-Pahlavi Venddd. This is owing, as it seems, only to the accidental loss of some folios in the one manuscript from which all the copies as yet...
Vendidad. Fargard Ix. The Nine Nights' Barashnum : * "The Zend Avesta, Part I (SBE04)", James Darmesteter, tr. [1880], FARGARD IX. THE NINE NIGHTS' BARASHNM. I a (1-11). Description of the place for cleansing the unclean (the Barashnm-gh). I b (12-36). Description of the cleansing. II (37-44). Fees of the cleanser. III (47-57). The false cleanser;...
Vendidad. Fargard Vii : * "The Zend Avesta, Part I (SBE04)", James Darmesteter, tr. [1880], FARGARD VII. I (1-5). How long after death the Nasu falls upon the dead. II (6-9). How far the defiling power of the Nasu extends. III (10-22). Cleansing of clothes defiled by the dead. IV (23-24). Eating of corpses an abominati...
Introduction. Chapter Iii. The Formati : * "The Zend Avesta, Part I (SBE04)", James Darmesteter, tr. [1880], p. xxx CHAPTER III. THE FORMATION OF THE ZEND-AVESTA. 1. The collection of Zend fragments, known as the Zend-Avesta 1, is divided, in its usual form, into two parts. The first part, or the Avesta properly so called, contains...
Introduction. Chapter Ii. The Interpretati : * "The Zend Avesta, Part I (SBE04)", James Darmesteter, tr. [1880], CHAPTER II. THE INTERPRETATION OF THE ZEND-AVESTA. THE peace did not last long, and a year after the death of Burnouf a new controversy broke out, which still continues, the battle of the methods, that is, the dispute between...
Vendidad. Fargard I : * "The Zend Avesta, Part I (SBE04)", James Darmesteter, tr. [1880], p. 1 VENDDD. FARGARD I. THIS chapter is an enumeration of sixteen lands created by Ahura Mazda, and of as many plagues created in opposition by Angra Mainyu. Many attempts have been made, not only to identify these sixteen lands...
Vendidad. Fargard Xi : * "The Zend Avesta, Part I (SBE04)", James Darmesteter, tr. [1880], FARGARD XI. This chapter, like the preceding, is composed of spells intended to drive away the Nasu. But they are of a more special character, as they refer to the particular objects to be cleansed, such as the house, the fire...
Vendidad. Fargard Xvi : * "The Zend Avesta, Part I (SBE04)", James Darmesteter, tr. [1880], FARGARD XVI. I (1-11). On the uncleanness of women during their sickness. II (11-12). How it can be removed. III (13-18). Sundry laws relating to the same matter. See Introd. V, 12. I. 1. O Maker of the material world, thou Holy...
