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MIHIR NYAVIS.
Unto the bright, undying, shining, swift-horsed
Sun;
Be propitiation, with sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification
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Ashem Vohu: Holiness is the best of all good
[We sacrifice] unto the Ahurian waters, the waters of Ahura, with excellent libations, with finest libations, with libations piously strained 3.
Ashem Vohû: Holiness is the best of all good..
[Give] unto that man brightness and glory, give him health of body,.... give him the bright, all-happy, blissful abode of the holy Ones.
II. MIHIR NYÂYIS.
1. Hail unto thee, O Ahura Mazda, in the threefold way! [Hail unto thee] before all other creatures!
Hail unto you, O Amesha-Spentas, who are all of you of one accord with the Sun!
May this prayer come unto Ahura Mazda! May it come unto the Amesha-Spentas! May it come unto the Fravashis of the holy Ones! May it come unto the sovereign Vayu of the long Period!
2. May Ahura Mazda be rejoiced!....
3. I praise well-thought, well-spoken, and well-done thoughts, words, and deeds....
4. I give sacrifice and prayer unto you, O Amesha-Spentas!.... 5. Hail to Ahura Mazda!....
May I grow in health of body through Vohu-Manô, Khshathra, and Asha, and come to that luminous space, to that highest of all high things, when the world, O Spenta Mainyu, has come to an end!
6. We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, who is truth-speaking, a chief in assemblies, with a thousand ears, well-shapen, with ten thousand
1 The whole of the Khôrshêd Yast is inserted here.
2 Rivers considered as Ahura's wives (cf. Ormazd et Ahriman, §32).
From Yasna LXVIII, 10 (LXVII, 30); cf. p. 34.
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§§ I−5=Khôrshed Ngâyis, §§ I-5.
® §§ 6–7=Khôrshed Nyâyis, §§ 6.
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| SR No. | 007677 |
| Book Title | Saddharma Pundarika |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | H Kern |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1884 |
| Total Pages | 2546 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 46 MB |