The Zend-AvestaЗенд-Авеста
1 passageотрывков: 1
Each date opens its day beside the list, with these passages marked.Каждая дата открывает свой день рядом со списком, где отрывки этого автора отмечены.
3. Бог проявляется в лучших мыслях, в правде речи, в искренности поступка и духом своим дает благоденствие и вечность миру.
3. God manifests himself in the best thoughts, in the truth of speech, in the sincerity of deeds, and by his spirit gives the world prosperity and eternity.
From Yasna 47 · reworded by Tolstoy (more).
What changedAhuramazda becomes “God,” and it is God, where Haug has the beneficent spirit, who “manifests himself in the best thoughts”; “perfection and immortality” become “prosperity and eternity,” and “wealth and devotion” are dropped.
In English · Martin Haug, Essays on the Sacred Language, Writings, and Religion of the Parsis, 2nd ed., ed. E. W. West (London, Trübner, 1878), 1878Ahuramazda gives through the beneficent …
… appearing in the best thought, and in rectitude of action and speech, to this world (universe), perfection (Haurvatat) and immortality (Ameretat), wealth (Khshathra) and devotion (Armaiti).
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Yasna 47 (Gatha Spenta Mainyu), Yasna 47.1; Haug, Essays on the Sacred Language, Writings, and Religion of the Parsis (2nd ed., 1878), p. 167, 'The Last Three Gathas'.
The opening verse of the Gatha Spenta Mainyu, Yasna 47.1, in Martin Haug's English: 'Ahuramazda gives through the beneficent spirit, appearing in the best thought, and in rectitude of action and speech, to this world (universe), perfection (Haurvatat) and immortality (Ameretat), wealth (Khshathra) and devotion (Armaiti).' Tolstoy's sentence follows Haug's reading: 'to this world' gives «миру», and 'appearing in the best thought' gives «проявляется в лучших мыслях». He names God for Ahuramazda and makes God, where Haug has the spirit, the one who appears; 'rectitude of action and speech' becomes two phrases, «в правде речи, в искренности поступка» (in truth of speech, in sincerity of deed); 'perfection and immortality' become «благоденствие и вечность» (welfare and eternity); 'wealth and devotion' are dropped. L. H. Mills's English (Sacred Books of the East 31, 1887), in which Ahura Mazda gives 'Universal Weal and Immortality' 'to this (man, His chosen saint)', is further from Tolstoy's wording. What Tolstoy read was not identified: the verse is not in Conway's Sacred Anthology, Fluegel's The Zend-Avesta and Eastern Religions (1898), or Thoughts of Wise Men (1903). Haug's wording, or a book quoting it, is probable. The Avestan text is not given: the standard's table of languages has no code for Avestan.