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.
A thousand remedies, ten thousand remedies ? ! A thousand remedies, ten thousand remedies ! A thousand remedies, ten thousand remedies! 27. '[We worship] the well-shapen, tall-formed Strength ; Verethraghna, made by Ahura ; the crushing Ascendant?, and Spenta-Armaiti.
28. “And with the help of Spenta-Ârmaiti, break ye 3 asunder their- malice, turn their minds astray, bind their hands, make their knees quake against one another, bind their tongues.
When, O Mazda ! shall the faithful smite the wicked 6 ? When shall the faithful smite the Drug? When shall the faithful smite the wicked ?'
29. Then Zarathustra said: 'I threw you back into the earth ?, and by the eyes of Spenta-Ârmaiti 8 the ruffian was made powerlesso.
30. We worship the powerful Gaokerena 10, made by Mazda ; the powerful Gaokerena, made by Mazda.
31. 'We worship the memory of Ahura Mazda, to keep the Holy Word.
We worship the understanding of Ahura Mazda, to study the Holy Word.
We worship the tongue of Ahura Mazda, to speak forth the Holy Word.
1 Yasna LXVIII, 15 (LXVII, 50). See Sîrôzah I, 20.
: Refers probably to the Izeds mentioned in the preceding paragraph.
+ Of the foes alluded to $ 24. Derezvan; see Yt. XI, 2. • Cf. Yasna XLVIII [XLVII), 2.
? I follow the reading zamerena, which is followed by the Pahlavi translation too. In the Yasna IX, 15 (46) Zarathustra is said to have obliged the Daêvas to hide themselves in the earth. 8 Cf. Yt. XIX, 94.
9 Cf. Vend. IX, 12-13. 10 See Sîrôzah I, 7.
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