Zend Avesta Part 02

SR No.: 007672
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Darmesteter
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1883
Total Pages: 2221
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 41 MB

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YASNA XXVI.
YASNA XXVI. THE FRAVASHIS; SACRIFICE AND PRAISE TO THEM.
1. I praise, invoke, and weave my hymn to the good, heroic, and bountiful Fravashis of the saints ; (and having invoked these, then) we worship the Nmânyas, and the Visyas, and the Zantumas, and the Dahvyumas !, and the Zarathustrôtemas.
2. And of all these prior Fravashis, we worship here the Fravashi of Ahura Mazda, which is the greatest and the best, the most beautiful and the firmest, the most wise and the best in form, and the one that attains the most its ends because of Righteousness. 3. And (having invoked them) hither, we worship the good, heroic, bountiful Fravashis of the holy ones, those of the Bountiful Immortals, the brilliant, of effective glance, the lofty, the devoted, the swift ones of the creatures of Ahura who are imperishable and holy.
4. And (having invoked them) hither, we worship the spirit and conscience, the intelligence and soul and Fravashi of those holy men and women who early heard the lore and commands (of Goda), and loved and strove after Righteousness, the ritual truth; and we worship the soul of the Kine of blessed gift. 5. And (having invoked it) hither, we worship the Fravashi of Gaya Maretan the holy, and the sanctity and Fravashi of Zarathustra Spitama the saint; and we worship the Fravashi of Kavi Vistâspa the holy, and that of Isat-västra the Zarathustrian, the saint.
Dahyumas.
Of the early religion.'
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