Author: F Max Muller
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
Year: 1998
Language: English
Pages: 1028
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8120801059/01245/01326
Description
This 3-volume set on Zoroastrianism translated by James Darmesteter covers the holy books of this faith. Volume 4 deals with The Vendidad, and Volume 23 pertains to The Sirozahs, Yasts and Nyayis, and finally volume 31 relates to The Yasna, Visparad, Afrinagan, Gahs and Miscellaneous Fragments. THERE has been no other great belief in the world that ever left such poor and meager monuments of its past splendor. Yet great is the value which the Vestal, and the belief of the Parsis, have in the eyes of the historian and theologist as they present to us the last reflex of the ideas which prevailed in Iran five centuries preceding and seven centuries following the birth of Christ, a period which gave to the world the Gospels, the Talmud, and the Qur'an. By the help of the Parsi religion and Avesta, we are enabled to go back to the very heart of that momentous period in the history of religious thought, which saw the blending of the Aryan mind with the Semitic, and thus opened the second stage of Aryan thought.
Contents
Volume -4
Introduction
CHAPTER I
The Discovery of the Zend-Avesta
CHAPTER II
The Interpretation of the Zend-Avesta
CHAPTER III
The Formation of the Zend-Avesta
CHAPTER IV
The Origin of the Avesta Religion
CHAPTER V
The Vendidad
Translation of the Vendidad
FARGARD I
An Enumeration of Sixteen 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
FARGARD IV
Contracts and Outrages
FARGARD V - FARGARD VIII
FARGARD IX
The Nine Nights Barashnum
FARGARD X
Spells Recited During the Process of the Cleansing
FARGARD XI
Special Spells for the Cleansing of the Several Objects
FARGARD XII
The Upaman: How Long it Lasts for Different Relatives.
FARGARD XIII
The Dog
FARGARD XIV
The Atonement for the Murder of a Water Dog
FARGARD XV - FARGARD XVI
FARGARD XVII
Hair and Nails
FARGARD XVIII - FARGARD XIX
FARGARD XX
Thrita and the Origin of Medicine
FARGARD XXI
Waters and Light
FARGARD XXII
Angra Mainyu creates 99,999 Diseases:
Ahura Mazda Applies for Healing to the Holy Word and to Airyaman
Transliteration of Oriental Alphabets adopted for
The Translations of the Sacred Books of the East
Volume – 23
Introduction
Translations
Preliminary Observations to the Yastas and Sirozahs
Sirozah I
Sirozah II
Preliminary Observations to the Nyayis
Index to the translations of the Vendidad, Sirozahs, Yasts, and Nyayis
Transliteration of Oriental Alphabets adopted for
The Translations of the Sacred Books of the East
Volume – 31
Preface
Introduction
Abbreviations
Translations
The Gathas (Yasna XXVIII-XXXIV-XLIII-LI, LIII)
YasnaI-XXVII, XXXV-XLII, LII, LIV-LXXII
Visparad – XXII
Afrinagan –I-III
Gahs I-V
Miscellaneous Fragments
Index
Transliteration of Oriental Alphabets adopted for
The Translations of the Sacred Books of the East