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________________ 140 YASTS AND SÎRÔZAHS. senses and ten thousand eyes to see. With those eyes and those senses, he watches the man who injures Mithra, the man who lies unto Mithra. Through those eyes and those senses, he is undeceivable, he, of the ten thousand spies, the powerful, all-knowing, undeceivable god. For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth being heard .... XXII. 83. We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake; Whom the lord of the country invokes for help, with hands uplifted; "Whom the lord of the town invokes for help, with hands uplifted; 84. Whom the lord of the borough invokes for help, with hands uplifted; Whom the master of the house invokes for help, with hands uplifted; 'Whom the ....2 in danger of death invokes for help, with hands uplifted; Whom the poor man, who follows the good law, when wronged and deprived of his rights, invokes for help, with hands uplifted. 85. 'The voice of his wailing reaches up to the sky, it goes over the earth all around, it goes over 1 Yaokhsti, the root of Persian nyôsîdan, Pahlavi niyôkhsîtan, to hear; one might be inclined to translate 'a thousand ears,' or 'a thousand hearings;' but the meaning of the word must have been rather more general, as Neriosengh translates it (pranidhi, IX, 8 [25]). 2 Dvâkina? Pithê: mrityu (Yasna LIII [LII], 6). Digitized by Google
SR No.007677
Book TitleSaddharma Pundarika
Original Sutra AuthorN/A
AuthorH Kern
PublisherOxford
Publication Year1884
Total Pages2546
LanguageEnglish
ClassificationBook_English
File Size46 MB
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