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 VII.
and the Haoma-juice. And we worship the sacred Fravashi of Zarathustra Spitâma the saint.
And we worship the wood-billets, and the perfume and thee, the Fire, Ahura Mazda's son, the holy lord of the ritual order.
19. And we worship the good, heroic, bountiful Fravashis of the saints.
20. And we worship all the holy Yazads, and all the lords of the ritual order at the time of Havani, and Savanghi, and all the greatest lords at their (proper) time. (The Yênhê hâtãm follows.)
21. The Ratu. As an Ahů (revered and) to be chosen, the priest speaks forth to me.
The Zaotar. So let the Ratu from his Righteousness, holy and learned, speak forth !
YASNA VII.
PRESENTATION OF OFFERINGS BY THE PRIEST WITH
THE OBJECT OF PROPITIATION NAMED. 1. With a complete and sacred offering 1 I offer and I give this meat-offering, and (with it) Haurvatât (who guards the water), and Ameretatât (who guards the plants and the wood), and the flesh of the Kine of blessed gift, for the propitiation of Ahura Mazda, and of the Bountiful Immortals (all, and) for the propitiation of Sraosha (Obedience) the blessed, endowed with sanctity, who smites with the blow of victory, and who causes the settlements to advance.
* With Ashi ; possibly 'for a blessing,' as Ashi often has the sense of reward,' but scrupulous sanctity and completeness seem to be the sense here.. (Expressions here are as usual varied.)
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