Avesta: the Religious Books of the Parsees

Author:   Arthur Henry Bleeck
Publisher:   General Books LLC
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9781459094406


Pages:   356
Publication Date:   06 August 2009
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: FARGARD III. . FARGARD III. f 1. Creator of the corporeal world, Pure Ono I 2. What is in the first place most acceptable to this earth ? 3. Then answered Ahura-Mazda: Where a holy man walks about, 0 holy Zarathustra, 4. Offering-wood in the hand, Beresma in the hand, the cup in the hand, the mortar in the hand, 5. In accordance with the law speaking these words: Mithra with his broad territories will I invoke, and Rama-qatra.1 6. Creator of the corporeal world, Pure One I 7. What is in the second place most acceptable to this earth? 8. Then answered Ahura-Mazda: That a holy man should build himself there a habitation, 9. Provided with fire, provided with cattle, provided with a wife, children, and good flocks. 10. Then is there in this habitation abundance of cattle, abundance of righteousness, abundance of provender, of dogs, of women, of youths, f of fire, of all that is requisite for a good life. 11. Creator of the corporeal world, Pure One! 12. What is in the third place most acceptable to this earth? 13. Then answered Ahura-Mazda: Where by cultivation there is produced, 0 holy Zarathustra, most corn, provender, and fruit-bearing trees; 14. Where dry land is watered, or the water is drained from the too-moist land.4 15. Creator of the corporeal world, Pure One 1 16. What is in the fourth place most acceptable to this earth ? 17. Then answered Ahura-Mazda: Where most cattle and beasts of burden are born.5 18. Creator of the corporeal world, Pure One! 19. What is in the fifth place most acceptable to this earth ? 20. Then answered Ahura-Mazda: Where cattle and beasts of burden most leave their urine. 21. Creator of the corporeal world, Pure One 1 22. What is in the first place most displeasing to this eart...

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Author:   Arthur Henry Bleeck
Publisher:   General Books LLC
Imprint:   General Books LLC
Dimensions:   Width: 22.90cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 15.20cm
Weight:   0.523kg
ISBN:  

9781459094406


ISBN 10:   1459094409
Pages:   356
Publication Date:   06 August 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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