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 IX.
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prepared thee for the corporeal world? What sanctity was offered him? what gain did he acquire ?
7. Thereupon gave H(a)oma answer, he the holy one, and driving death afar: Athwya' was the second who prepared me for the corporeal world. This blessedness was given him, this gain did he acquire, that to him a son was born, Thraêtaona of the heroic tribe,
8. Who smote the dragon Dahâka 3, three-jawed and triple-headed, six-eyed, with thousand powers, and of mighty strength, a lie-demon of the Daêvas, evil for our settlements, and wicked, whom the evil spirit Angra Mainyu made as the most mighty Drug(k) (against the corporeal world], and for the murder of (our) settlements, and to slay the (homes) of Asha!
9. Who was the third man, O H(a)oma! who prepared thee for the corporeal world? What blessedness was given him? what gain did he acquire ?
10. Thereupon gave H(a)oma answer, the holy one, and driving death afar: Thrita ", [the most helpful of the Sâmas ®], was the third man who prepared me for the corporeal world. This blessedness was given
· Comp. Tritá aptiá. ? Comp. the Indian Traitana connected with Tritá.
3 Let it be remembered that Tritá smote the Ahi before Indra, Indra seeming only to re-enact the more original victory which the Avesta notices. Concerning Azhi Dahâka, see Windischmann's Zendstudien, s. 136.
Free. o In the Rig-veda aptyá seems only an epithet added to the name Trita *; and the two serpents of the Avesta are suspicious. Two names seem to have become two persons, or has the Avesta the more correct representation ?
• Have we the Semites here? They certainly penetrated as conquerors far into Media, and it seems uncritical to deny their leaving traces. The gloss may be very old.
* And to that of other gods.
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