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 xiv.
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of Zarathustra Spitâma, the saint. Yea, that one of beings do we worship whose better service) in the sacrifice Ahura Mazda knows; (even those women do we worship) whose' (better service thus is known). Yea, both (holy) men and women (do we worship whom Ahura Mazda knows?). As the Ahd is excelling, so is our Ratu, one who rules from the Righteous Order, a creator of mental goodness, and of life's actions done for Mazda; and the Kingdom is to Ahura which to the poor (may offer) nurture ?
A blessing is the Right called the best, there is weal, there is weal to this (man), when toward Righteousness Best (he does) right?
8. We worship the Ahuna-vairya ; and we worship Asha Vahista the best (?), the bountiful Immortal. And we sacrifice to the Hâ fraoreti, even to the confession and laudation of the Mazdayasnian Faith!
YASNA XIV (Sp. XV).
DEDICATIONS. 1. I will come to You, O Ye Bountiful Immortals ! as a praiser and a priest, and an invoker and sacrificer, as a memorising reciter and a chanter, for Your sacrifice and homage, which are to be offered to You, the Bountiful Immortals, and for our dedication and sanctification; (yea, for ours) who are the holy prophets (destined to benefit the saints).
2. And to You, O Ye Bountiful Immortals?! would I dedicate the flesh of my very body, and all the blessings of a prospered life *.
3. In this Zaothra with this Baresman, I desire to
· Feminine. • See Y. XXXIII, 14.
2 Elsewhere with verbal difference. • Verses 1, 2 are Gâthic.
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