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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bridge she places it in the presence of the heavenly gods themselves.
31 (102). 'Up rises Vohu-mano 1 from his golden seat; Vohu-manô exclaims : “How hast thou come to us, thou Holy One, from that decaying world into this undecaying one ? ?”
32 (105). “Gladly pass the souls of the righteous to the golden seat of Ahura Mazda, to the golden seat of the Amesha-Spentas, to the Garð-nmânem , the abode of Ahura Mazda, the abode of the Amesha-Spentas, the abode of all the other holy beings.
33 (108). “As to the godly man that has been cleansed “, the wicked evil-doing Daêvas tremble at the perfume of his soul after death, as doth a sheep on which a wolf is pouncing
34(110). "The souls of the righteous are gathered together there: Nairyô-sangha® is with them; a messenger of Ahura Mazda is Nairyô-sangha.
II a.
'Invoke, O Zarathustra ! this very creation of Ahura Mazda.'
35 (114). Zarathustra imitated those words of
1 The doorkeeper of Paradise; a Zoroastrian Saint-Pierre. ? Cf. Farg. VII, 52 ; Yt. XXII, 16.
• The Garothmân of the Parsis; literally, 'the house of songs;' it is the highest Paradise.
That has performed the Barashnům. o Ormazd is all perfume, Ahriman is infection and stench (Bundahis I; Eznig, Refutatio Haeresiarum II); the souls of their fol. lowers partake of the same qualities, and by the performance of the Barashnum both the body and the soul are perfumed and sweetened.
• Cf. Farg. XXII, 7.
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