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1Google This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world’s books discoverable online. It has survived long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain. A public domain book is one that was never subject to copyright or whose legal copyright term has expired. Whether a book is in the public domain may vary country to country. Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that’s often difficult to discover. Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book’s long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you. Usage guidelines Google is proud to partner with libraries to digitize public domain materials and make them widely accessible. Public domain books belong to the public and we are merely their custodians. Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical restrictions on automated querying. We also ask that you: + Make non-commercial use of the files We designed Google Book Search for use by individuals, and we request that you use these files for personal, non-commercial purposes. + Refrain from automated querying Do not send automated queries of any sort to Google’s system: If you are conducting research on machine translation, optical character recognition or other areas where access to a large amount of text is helpful, please contact us. We encourage the use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help. + Maintain attribution The Google “watermark” you see on each file is essential for informing people about this project and helping them find additional materials through Google Book Search. Please do not remove it. + Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal. Do not assume that just because we believe a book is in the public domain for users in the United States, that the work is also in the public domain for users in other countries. Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can’t offer guidance on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed. Please do not assume that a book’s appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world. Copyright infringement liability can be quite severe. About Google Book Search Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful. Google Book Search helps readers discover the world’s books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences. You can search through the full text of this book on the web at http: //books.google.com/ } \ J i | v h \ i } i
2Google Book Search helps readers discover the world’s books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences. You can search through the full text of this book on the web at http: //books.google.com/ } \ J i | v h \ i } i My ui ie "ay at NAN hee art FOV TOT TY COMO EI” GET NA be OY! PEPE Cis HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY Digitized by Google Digitized by Google Digitized by Google THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST [4] Bondon HENRY FROWDE Oxrorp University Press WAREHOUSE Amen Corner, E.C. Mew York MACMILLAN & CO., 66 FIFTH AVENUE THE ,SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST, TRANSLATED BY VARIOUS ORIENTAL SCHOLARS AND EDITED BY F. MAX MULLER / at, 4 VOL. IV Second Edition @rford AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 18950 A (AU rights reserved] HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Orford PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS BY HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY THE ZEND-AVESTA PART I THE VENDIDAD TRANSLATED BY JAMES DARMESTETER Second Edition @rford AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1895 (Ad rights reserved | Digitized by Google NOTE. THE completion of this second edition of Professor Darmesteter’s translation of the Avesta has been interrupted by the sudden and untimely death of the author. Fortunately, he had already revised the proof-sheets of his translation of the Vendiddd, and completed his manuscript of the Introduction and Fragments. And, as the original manuscripts and collations, from which the text of the Fragments was derived, are mostly in my possession, the revision of the remaining proof-sheets has been chiefly in my hands, but has been carried out strictly in accordance with the author's views, as ascertained from his French translation of the Avesta. I have only to add that, though differing from my lamented friend in some of his more speculative opinions, I am convinced that it would be difficult to find a sounder scholar, a more brilliant writer, and a more estimable man, all united in the same individual. E. W. WEST. May, 1895. CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION. CHAPTER I. THE DISCOVERY OF THE ZEND-AVESTA . PAGE xiii ” II. THE INTERPRETATION OF THE ZEND-AVESTA xxvii » III. THE FORMATION OF THE ZEND-AVESTA . . » IV. PARTHIAN ELEMENTS IN THE AVESTA'. . » Vv. BRAHMANICAL, BuppHist, AND GREEK ELE- MENTS . . . » VI. JEWISH ELEMENTS IN THE RELIGION » WII. ACHAEMENIAN AND EARLIER ELEMENTS » VIII AGE AND GROWTH OF THE AVESTA . » IX. CONCLUSIONS » & THE VENDI{DAD . TRANSLATION OF THE VEND{DAD. FARGARD I. AN ENUMERATION OF SIXTEEN PERFECT LANDS CREATED BY AHURA MAZDA, AND OF AS MANY PLAGUES CREATED IN OPPOSITION BY ANGRA MAINYU FARGARD II. MYTHS OF YIMA . . . : . . FARGARD III. THE EARTH . . . I (1-6). What comforts most the Genius of the Earth? II (7-11). What discomforts most the Genius of the Earth? _ III (12-35). What rejoices the Earth most? .. IV (36-42). Adevelopment forbidding the burialofthe dead
3MYTHS OF YIMA . . . : . . FARGARD III. THE EARTH . . . I (1-6). What comforts most the Genius of the Earth? II (7-11). What discomforts most the Genius of the Earth? _ III (12-35). What rejoices the Earth most? .. IV (36-42). Adevelopment forbidding the burialofthe dead FARGARD IV. CONTRACTS AND OUTRAGES Ia (2). Classification of the contracts according to the value of their object. . . (3-4). A-contract is cancelled by paying the amount of the contract higher by one degree . (5-10). Religious responsibility of the family for the breach of a contract by one of its members. . (11-16). Punishment of the Mibir- Drug (ones who breaks a contract) . . . . . . . Ila(17). Definition of the outrages known as 5 Agerepta (threatening attitude), avaoirista (assault), aredus (blows) . . . . . . . . . (18-21). Penalties for menaces . - (22-25). Assaults . . . : . : . . xxxi xlvii li lvii Ix Ixiv Ixvii Ixx 1o 21 22 24 26 32 34 35 35 36 36 38 39 40 41 CONTENTS. ix PAGE (26-29). Blows . + 7 + ee G2 (30-33). Wounds . . . : - 42 (34-36). Wounds causing blood to flow ee 43 (37-39). Broken bones. . . . . - . 44 (40-43). Manslaughter. . . - 44 III a (44-45). Contract of charity to coreligonsts . 45 IV a (46). Heinousness of false oath . . 46 — II] b (47-49 a). Dignity of wealth; of marrage of physical weal . . . . 46 — IV b (49 b-55). Heinousness of false oath. " Ordeal : - 48 FARGARD V. . . . . . . . . . - 49 I (1-7). If a man defile the fire or the earth with dead matter (Nasu) involuntarily or unconsciously, it isno sin. 50 II (8-9). Water and fire do not kill . . . 52 III (10-14). Disposal of the dead during winter, when it is not possible to take them to the Dakhma . . 53 IV (15-20). Why Ahura, while forbidding man to defile water, sends water from the heavens down to the Dakhmas, covered with corpses. How he purifies that water . . 54 V (21-26). On the excellence of purity and of the law that shows how to recover purity, when lost. 56 VI (27-38). On the defiling power of the Nasu being greater or less, according to the greater or less dignity of the being that dies . 58 VII (39-44). On the management of sacrificial implements defiled with Nasu . . 61 VIII (45-62). On the treatment of a woman n who has been delivered of a still-born child ; and what is to be done with her clothes . . . : . . . - 62 FARGARD VI. . . 67 : I (1-9). How long the earth remains unclean, when defiled by the dead . 67 II (10-25). Penalties for ‘defiling the ground with dead matter 68 III (26-41). Purification of the different sorts of water, when defiled by the dead . . . . . . - 71 IV (42-43). Purification of the Haoma : - 73 L V (44-51). The place for corpses; the Dakhmas : - 74 FARGARD VII. . . 76 I (1-5). How long after death the Drug Nasu takes posses- sion of the corpse . 76
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1Google This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world’s books discoverable online. It has survived long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain. A public domain book is one that was never subject to copyright or whose legal copyright term has expired. Whether a book is in the public domain may vary country to country. Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture and knowledge that’s often difficult to discover. Marks, notations and other marginalia present in the original volume will appear in this file - a reminder of this book’s long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you. Usage guidelines Google is proud to partner with libraries to digitize public domain materials and make them widely accessible. Public domain books belong to the public and we are merely their custodians. Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical restrictions on automated querying. We also ask that you: + Make non-commercial use of the files We designed Google Book Search for use by individuals, and we request that you use these files for personal, non-commercial purposes. + Refrain from automated querying Do not send automated queries of any sort to Google’s system: If you are conducting research on machine translation, optical character recognition or other areas where access to a large amount of text is helpful, please contact us. We encourage the use of public domain materials for these purposes and may be able to help. + Maintain attribution The Google “watermark” you see on each file is essential for informing people about this project and helping them find additional materials through Google Book Search. Please do not remove it. + Keep it legal Whatever your use, remember that you are responsible for ensuring that what you are doing is legal. Do not assume that just because we believe a book is in the public domain for users in the United States, that the work is also in the public domain for users in other countries. Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country, and we can’t offer guidance on whether any specific use of any specific book is allowed. Please do not assume that a book’s appearance in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world. Copyright infringement liability can be quite severe. About Google Book Search Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful. Google Book Search helps readers discover the world’s books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences. You can search through the full text of this book on the web at http: //books.google.com/ } \ J i | v h \ i } i
2Google Book Search helps readers discover the world’s books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences. You can search through the full text of this book on the web at http: //books.google.com/ } \ J i | v h \ i } i My ui ie "ay at NAN hee art FOV TOT TY COMO EI” GET NA be OY! PEPE Cis HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY Digitized by Google Digitized by Google Digitized by Google THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST [4] Bondon HENRY FROWDE Oxrorp University Press WAREHOUSE Amen Corner, E.C. Mew York MACMILLAN & CO., 66 FIFTH AVENUE THE ,SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST, TRANSLATED BY VARIOUS ORIENTAL SCHOLARS AND EDITED BY F. MAX MULLER / at, 4 VOL. IV Second Edition @rford AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 18950 A (AU rights reserved] HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Orford PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS BY HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY THE ZEND-AVESTA PART I THE VENDIDAD TRANSLATED BY JAMES DARMESTETER Second Edition @rford AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1895 (Ad rights reserved | Digitized by Google NOTE. THE completion of this second edition of Professor Darmesteter’s translation of the Avesta has been interrupted by the sudden and untimely death of the author. Fortunately, he had already revised the proof-sheets of his translation of the Vendiddd, and completed his manuscript of the Introduction and Fragments. And, as the original manuscripts and collations, from which the text of the Fragments was derived, are mostly in my possession, the revision of the remaining proof-sheets has been chiefly in my hands, but has been carried out strictly in accordance with the author's views, as ascertained from his French translation of the Avesta. I have only to add that, though differing from my lamented friend in some of his more speculative opinions, I am convinced that it would be difficult to find a sounder scholar, a more brilliant writer, and a more estimable man, all united in the same individual. E. W. WEST. May, 1895. CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION. CHAPTER I. THE DISCOVERY OF THE ZEND-AVESTA . PAGE xiii ” II. THE INTERPRETATION OF THE ZEND-AVESTA xxvii » III. THE FORMATION OF THE ZEND-AVESTA . . » IV. PARTHIAN ELEMENTS IN THE AVESTA'. . » Vv. BRAHMANICAL, BuppHist, AND GREEK ELE- MENTS . . . » VI. JEWISH ELEMENTS IN THE RELIGION » WII. ACHAEMENIAN AND EARLIER ELEMENTS » VIII AGE AND GROWTH OF THE AVESTA . » IX. CONCLUSIONS » & THE VENDI{DAD . TRANSLATION OF THE VEND{DAD. FARGARD I. AN ENUMERATION OF SIXTEEN PERFECT LANDS CREATED BY AHURA MAZDA, AND OF AS MANY PLAGUES CREATED IN OPPOSITION BY ANGRA MAINYU FARGARD II. MYTHS OF YIMA . . . : . . FARGARD III. THE EARTH . . . I (1-6). What comforts most the Genius of the Earth? II (7-11). What discomforts most the Genius of the Earth? _ III (12-35). What rejoices the Earth most? .. IV (36-42). Adevelopment forbidding the burialofthe dead
3MYTHS OF YIMA . . . : . . FARGARD III. THE EARTH . . . I (1-6). What comforts most the Genius of the Earth? II (7-11). What discomforts most the Genius of the Earth? _ III (12-35). What rejoices the Earth most? .. IV (36-42). Adevelopment forbidding the burialofthe dead FARGARD IV. CONTRACTS AND OUTRAGES Ia (2). Classification of the contracts according to the value of their object. . . (3-4). A-contract is cancelled by paying the amount of the contract higher by one degree . (5-10). Religious responsibility of the family for the breach of a contract by one of its members. . (11-16). Punishment of the Mibir- Drug (ones who breaks a contract) . . . . . . . Ila(17). Definition of the outrages known as 5 Agerepta (threatening attitude), avaoirista (assault), aredus (blows) . . . . . . . . . (18-21). Penalties for menaces . - (22-25). Assaults . . . : . : . . xxxi xlvii li lvii Ix Ixiv Ixvii Ixx 1o 21 22 24 26 32 34 35 35 36 36 38 39 40 41 CONTENTS. ix PAGE (26-29). Blows . + 7 + ee G2 (30-33). Wounds . . . : - 42 (34-36). Wounds causing blood to flow ee 43 (37-39). Broken bones. . . . . - . 44 (40-43). Manslaughter. . . - 44 III a (44-45). Contract of charity to coreligonsts . 45 IV a (46). Heinousness of false oath . . 46 — II] b (47-49 a). Dignity of wealth; of marrage of physical weal . . . . 46 — IV b (49 b-55). Heinousness of false oath. " Ordeal : - 48 FARGARD V. . . . . . . . . . - 49 I (1-7). If a man defile the fire or the earth with dead matter (Nasu) involuntarily or unconsciously, it isno sin. 50 II (8-9). Water and fire do not kill . . . 52 III (10-14). Disposal of the dead during winter, when it is not possible to take them to the Dakhma . . 53 IV (15-20). Why Ahura, while forbidding man to defile water, sends water from the heavens down to the Dakhmas, covered with corpses. How he purifies that water . . 54 V (21-26). On the excellence of purity and of the law that shows how to recover purity, when lost. 56 VI (27-38). On the defiling power of the Nasu being greater or less, according to the greater or less dignity of the being that dies . 58 VII (39-44). On the management of sacrificial implements defiled with Nasu . . 61 VIII (45-62). On the treatment of a woman n who has been delivered of a still-born child ; and what is to be done with her clothes . . . : . . . - 62 FARGARD VI. . . 67 : I (1-9). How long the earth remains unclean, when defiled by the dead . 67 II (10-25). Penalties for ‘defiling the ground with dead matter 68 III (26-41). Purification of the different sorts of water, when defiled by the dead . . . . . . - 71 IV (42-43). Purification of the Haoma : - 73 L V (44-51). The place for corpses; the Dakhmas : - 74 FARGARD VII. . . 76 I (1-5). How long after death the Drug Nasu takes posses- sion of the corpse . 76
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