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 STRÔZAHS.
awfulness, well-moving, swiftly moving, quickly moving, who move when invoked; who are to be invoked in the conquest of good, who are to be invoked in fights against foes, who are to be invoked in battles;
24.““ Who give victory to their invoker, who give boons to their lover, who give health to the sick man, who give good Glory to the faithful man that brings libations and invokes them with a sacrifice and words of propitiation ?;
25. ““ Who turn to that side where are faithful men, most devoted to holiness, and where is the greatest piety?, where the faithful man is rejoiced , and where the faithful man is not ill-treated 4."
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26. We worship the good, strong, beneficent Fravashis of the faithful, who are the mightiest of drivers, the lightest of those driving forwards, the slowest of the retiring 5, the safesto of all bridges, the leasterring of all weapons and arms ®, and who never turn their backs ?.
27. At once, wherever they come, we worship them, the good ones, the excellent ones, the good, the strong, the beneficent Fravashis of the faithful. They are to be invoked when the bundles of baresma are tied; they are to be invoked in fights against foes, in battles, and there where gallant men strive to conquer foes.
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1 Cf. $ 40. 9 Fréritau: cf. fréreti=farnâmisn, âdesa (Yasna VIII, 2 [4]). With alms (ashô dâd).
• Cf. § 36. 8 Doubtful.
6 Defensive arms. 7 To flee.
8 Cf. § 23.
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