Zend Avesta Part 03

SR No.: 007673
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: L H Mills
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1887
Total Pages: 2618
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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YASNA LIII.
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Yasna confessions as they render Him praise, making straight paths ? (for our going), even that Faith of the Saoshyant which Ahura will found 3.
(The master of the feast.) 34. And him will they give Thee, O Pourukista, Haêkat-aspid and Spitâmi! young" (as thou art) of the daughters of Zarathustra, him will they give thee as a help in the Good Mind's true service, of Asha's and Mazda's, as a chief and a guardian?. Counsel well then (together 8), with the mind of Årmaiti, most bounteous and pious; and act with just action.
(She answers.) 4. I will love' and vie with him, since from (my) father 10 he gained (me). For the master and toilers, and for the lord-kinsman (be) the Good Mind's bright
1 Free.
Recall the path made for the Kine,' and 'the way' which • Thou declarest to be that of the Good Mind.'
That is, will permanently found, establish. • Verses have here fallen out, as some allusion must have been made to the bridegroom.
So more according to the hint of the Pahlavi and the statement of the Bundahis; West, XXXII, 5. So Geldner, K. Z. 28, 195.
6 Or, will he, the Saoshyant, the bride's father.' ? A chieftain, a protecting head.
• It is, perhaps, safer to refer this questioning' to the pair; but forms of ham with pares are also used of consultations with the Deity (see Y. XXXIII, 6). Y. XLIV, 13 nearly necessitates the wider and less concrete view here.
• Varânî looks somewhat like a gloss, but the metre seems to demand it.
10 Her father's sanction was a reason for devotion to the man to whom he had given her.
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