The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East: With Historical Surveys of the Chief Writings of Each Nation...Charles Francis Horne Parke, Austin, and Lipscomb, 1917 |
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... destroyed the too - ambitious thinker by a flash of fire , leaving only his charred bones . Arab tradition made Zo- roaster a pupil of the prophet Jeremiah ; and Jewish tradi- tion declared him to be the patriarch Abraham under another ...
... destroyed the too - ambitious thinker by a flash of fire , leaving only his charred bones . Arab tradition made Zo- roaster a pupil of the prophet Jeremiah ; and Jewish tradi- tion declared him to be the patriarch Abraham under another ...
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... destroyed ; and third , the Mohammedan medieval Persian Kingdom in which Firdausi wrote . In the Shah - Nameh we get the final grouping of Persian legends of the beginnings of the nation , of its ancient kings and wars , of Zoroaster ...
... destroyed ; and third , the Mohammedan medieval Persian Kingdom in which Firdausi wrote . In the Shah - Nameh we get the final grouping of Persian legends of the beginnings of the nation , of its ancient kings and wars , of Zoroaster ...
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... destroy the crops . Mazda thereon assigns Zarathushtra to check this disorder . The ox and cow protest ; he is too weak and unnoted a man ; they want a king . But Zarathushtra at once accepts his mission with such energy that they are ...
... destroy the crops . Mazda thereon assigns Zarathushtra to check this disorder . The ox and cow protest ; he is too weak and unnoted a man ; they want a king . But Zarathushtra at once accepts his mission with such energy that they are ...
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... and asks Mazda for aid . In the ninth stanza he announces the choice made by the ox and cow in Yasna xxix and then questions what choice of life men should make . destroy the beings of Asha ( Righteousness ) , but 16 THE SACRED BOOKS.
... and asks Mazda for aid . In the ninth stanza he announces the choice made by the ox and cow in Yasna xxix and then questions what choice of life men should make . destroy the beings of Asha ( Righteousness ) , but 16 THE SACRED BOOKS.
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... destroy the beings of Asha ( Righteousness ) , but words which are most excellent for those who devote their hearts unto Mazda . Since , owing to these things , 2 . the better path for the soul is not in sight , then I am come unto you ...
... destroy the beings of Asha ( Righteousness ) , but words which are most excellent for those who devote their hearts unto Mazda . Since , owing to these things , 2 . the better path for the soul is not in sight , then I am come unto you ...
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Afrasiyab afterward Ahura Mazda answered Airyaman Angra Mainyu Ardavan Arjasp army Artakhshir asked Aspahe-astra Ataro the angel Auharmazd Avesta Barzu battle blessing body bring Byzun cattle Daevas damsel Dara Darab Darius the King dead death deeds demon Dominion Druj earth enemy evil faithful Fargard father Feridun Firdausi fire Gathas Gaumata give grief Gushtasp Haoma hast heart Heaven horse hundred stripes invoke Iran Isfendiyar Jamasp Jemshid Kabul Kaus Khyaonas killed King Vishtasp Maker material world Mazda Ahura Mazdayasnians Mazinderan Mobads mountain Nasu night Pahlavi Parsis penalty Persian Peshotanu Piety Rakush religion replied Right righteous Rustem Saith Darius Shahpuhr Sikander Simurgh Sistan smite soul spirit Spitama Zarathushtra Sraosha Sraosho-karana Srosh Srosh the pious sword thou Holy thou shalt Thought thousand throne Vendidad Viraf Vohu-mano warriors whilst wicked words worshipers of Mazda YASNA Yima Zabulistan Zarir Zohak Zoroaster Zoroastrian
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Seite 68 - All those seeds shalt thou bring, two of every kind, to be kept inexhaustible there, so long as those men shall stay in the Vara.
Seite 76 - Zarathustra ! with the left arm and the right, with the right arm and the left, unto him thus says the Earth :
Seite 147 - Then the fiend, named Vizaresha, O Spitama Zarathushtra, carries off in bonds the souls of the wicked Daeva-worshippers who live in sin. The soul enters the way made by Time, and open both to the wicked and to the righteous. At the head of the Chinvad bridge, the holy bridge made by Mazda, they ask for their spirits and souls the reward for the worldly goods which they gave away here below.
Seite 125 - And, when the child becomes separate from the mother, it is necessary to burn a lamp for three nights and days — if they burn a fire it would be better — so that the demons and fiends may not be able to do any damage and harm; because, when a child is born, it is exceedingly delicate for those three days.
Seite 92 - Purity is for man, next to life, the greatest good ; that purity which is procured by the law of Mazda to him who cleanses his own self with good thoughts, words and deeds.
Seite 145 - ... till me with the left arm and the right, with the right arm and the left, hither shall people ever come and beg for bread ; here shall I ever go on bearing, bringing forth all manner of food, bringing forth profusion of corn.
Seite 66 - Then Yima stepped forward, in light, southwards, on the way of the sun, and afterwards he pressed the earth with the golden seal, and bored it with the poniard, speaking thus: "O Spenta Armaiti, kindly open asunder and stretch thyself afar, to bear flocks and herds and men.
Seite 24 - And when these twain Spirits came together in the beginning, they established Life and Not-Life, and that at the last the Worst Existence shall be to the followers of the Lie, but the Best Thought to him that follows Right.
Seite 261 - Ages may pass away, but still my page Will be the boast of each succeeding age. Praise, praise to Mahmud, who of like renown, In battle or the banquet, fills the throne ; lord of the realms of Chin and Hindustan, Sovereign and Lord of Persia and Turan, With his loud voice he rends the flintiest ear ; On land a tiger fierce, untouched by fear, And on the wave, he seems the crocodile That prowls amidst the waters of the Nile. Generous and brave, his equal is unknown; In deeds of princely worth he stands...
Seite 167 - I am DARIUS, the great King, the King of Kings, the King of Persia, the King of the provinces, the son of HYSTASPES, the grandson of ARSAMES, the Achaemenian.