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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YASTS AND SîRÔZAHS.
of wide pastures, angry, offended, and unsatisfied, comes and meets them?.
42. 'They cry unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, saying: “O Mithra, thou lord of wide pastures ! here are our fiery horses taking us away, as they flee from Mithra ; here are our sturdy arms cut to pieces by the sword, O Mithra !”
43. And then Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, throws them to the ground, killing their fifties and their hundreds, their hundreds and their thousands, their thousands and their tens of thousands, their tens of thousands and their myriads of myriads; as Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, is angry and offended.
'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth being heard ....
x. 44. "We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake;
Whose dwelling, wide as the earth, extends over the material world, large?, unconfined, and bright, a far-and-wide-extending abode.
45. 'Whose eight friends 3 sit as spies for Mithra, on all the heights, at all the watching-places, obserying the man who lies unto Mithra, looking at those, remembering those who have lied unto Mithra, but guarding the ways of those whose life is sought by
1 Cf. $$ 99-101. ? Doubtful. The text is corrupt. .Doubtful. The number eight has probably an astronomical signification, each of the eight râtis of Mithra occupying one of the eight points of the compass.
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