Zend Avesta Part 01

SR No.: 007671
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Darmesteter
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1895
Total Pages: 2695
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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VISHNU.
LXV, 11.
words), 'Thou art murderous (dhûr), slay (dhûrva) (the slayer),' incense (dhupa);
11. With (the one Mantra, beginning with the words), “Thou art splendour and light,' a lamp;
12. With (the one Mantra, beginning with the words, 'I have praised) Dadhikrävan,' a Madhuparka (honey-mixture);
13. With the eight Mantras (beginning with the word), ‘Hiranyagarbha,' an offering of (other) eatables.
14. A chowrie, a fan, a looking-glass?, an umbrella, a (palanquin or other) vehicle, and a (throne or other) seat, all these objects he must announce (and place before) the god (Vishnu), muttering the Gâyatri (at the same time).
15. After having thus worshipped him, he must mutter the Purushasakta. After that, he who wishes to obtain eternal bliss must make oblations of clarified butter, while reciting the same hymn.
LXVI. 1. He must not make an oblation to the gods or to the manes with water collected at night.
2. He must not give any other fragrant substance than sandal, or musk, or (fragrant) wood (of the odoriferous Devadâru tree), or camphor, or saffron, or the wood of the Gâtîphala tree;
3. Nor a garment dyed with indigo;
11. Vâgas. Samh. XXII, 1. Nand. states that this Mantra belongs to the Sâkhâ of the Kathas; but I have not met with it in the Kathaka.
12. Rig-veda IV, 39, 6, &c. 13. Rig-veda X, 121, 1-8; Kath. XL, 1, &c. 14. 1 Thus the term mâtrâ is interpreted by Nand.
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