ZoroasterЗороастр
2 passagesотрывков: 2
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.
6. Кто не работает землю, тому земля говорит: «За то, что ты не работаешь меня правой и левой рукой, вечно будешь стоять у чужих дверей вместе со всеми попрошайками, вечно будешь пользоваться отбросами богатых».
6. To whoever does not work the earth, the earth says: “Because you do not work me with your right hand and your left, you will forever stand at other people’s doors with all the beggars; you will forever live on the leavings of the rich.”
From Vendidad, Fargard III · shortened by Tolstoy (more).
In English · James Darmesteter (Sacred Books of the East, vol. 4), 1880He who does not till the earth, O Spitama Zarathustra ! with the left arm and the right, with the right arm and the left, unto him thus says the Earth : …
… ever shalt thou stand at the door of the stranger, among those who beg for bread ; …
… ever shalt thou wait there for the refuse that is brought unto thee …
… brought by those who have profusion of wealth.
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Vendidad, Fargard III, 3.28-29 (91-95 in Spiegel's numbering), Darmesteter pp. 28-29.
Ahura Mazda's words to Zarathustra in the Vendidad, close to Darmesteter's English: 'O thou man! who dost not till me with the left arm and the right, with the right arm and the left, ever shalt thou stand at the door of the stranger, among those who beg for bread; ever shalt thou wait there for the refuse that is brought unto thee, brought by those who have profusion of wealth.' Tolstoy drops the address to Zarathustra and the repeated 'with the right arm and the left'; 'wait there for the refuse' becomes «пользоваться отбросами» (live on the refuse). What Tolstoy read was not identified: the passage is not in Conway's Sacred Anthology, Naoroji, or Thoughts of Wise Men (1903). The Avestan text is not given: the standard's table of languages has no code for Avestan.
9. Грех не только делать, но и думать дурное.
9. It is a sin not only to do what is bad, but also to think it.
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Related · Martin Haug, Essays on the Sacred Language, Writings, and Religion of the Parsis… praising good thoughts and good words and good deeds, renouncing all evil thoughts and evil words and evil deeds.
… when one forsakes evil thoughts and evil words and evil deeds.
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«Грех не только делать, но и думать дурное» (it is a sin to think evil, as well as to do it). No source in these words was found. The thought belongs to the Zoroastrian triad of good thoughts, good words, and good deeds, with evil thoughts named first among sins: in the Hadokht Nask the best recital of the Ashem is the one that renounces 'all evil thoughts and evil words and evil deeds' (Haug's English, 1878), and the Vendidad's cleansing frees the faithful 'from every evil thought, word, and deed' (Darmesteter). None of these has the saying's turn, that thinking evil is a sin as doing it is. The Circle's other «Зороастр» (4-5.6) is the Vendidad, through an intermediary not identified.
Searched: Thoughts of Wise Men (1903) and the Jubilee vols. 39-43 and 45; Conway's Sacred Anthology (1874); Naoroji's Parsee catechism (1861); Haug's Essays on the Parsis (1878); Darmesteter's Vendidad (SBE 4); West's Mainyo-i-Khard (SBE 24); Fluegel's Zend-Avesta (1898); the Dabistan (Shea and Troyer, 1843); the Desatir (1888); web searches in Russian and English for the saying.