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

Page 65

KHORDÂD YAST.
7. 'He draws [then] three furrows 1: I proclaim him one of the faithful; he draws six furrows?: I proclaim him one of the faithful; he draws nine furrows 1: I proclaim him one of the faithful.
8. The names of those (Amesha-Spentas) smite the men turned to Nasus 2 by the Druges; the seed and kin of the deafs are smitten, the scornful + are dead, as the Zaotar Zarathustra blows them away to woe", however fierce, at his will and wish, as many as he wishes.
9. From the time when the sun is down he smites them with bruising blows; from the time when the sun is no longer up, he deals deadly blows on the Nasu with his club struck down, for the propitiation and glorification of the heavenly gods.
10. 'O Zarathustra ! let not that spell be shown to any one, except by the father to his son, or by the brother to his brother from the same womb, or by the Åthravan to his pupil & in black hair, devoted to the good law, who, devoted to the good law, holy? and brave, stills all the Druges 8.
11. 'For his brightness and glory, I will offer unto him a sacrifice worth being heard, namely, unto Hauryatât, the Amesha-Spenta. Unto Haurvatât, the Amesha-Spenta, we offer up the libations, the Haoma and meat, the baresma, the wisdom of the tongue, the
1 To perform the Bareshnům; cf. Vend. XXII, 20 (54).
* Reading nasům kereta; cf. nasu-kereta (Vend. VII, 26 [67]).
See above, p. 26, note 2. Saoka; cf. Yt. XXII, 13. o Duxavât: both the reading and the meaning are doubtful. Mr. West suggests, sends to hell' (reading duzanghvât or dusang hat). * Doubtful.
? Reading ashava instead of asô ava. • Cf. Yt. XIV, 46.
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