Zend Avesta Part 01

SR No.: 007671
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Darmesteter
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1895
Total Pages: 2695
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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ing forth all manner of food, bringing corn first to thee ?."
28, 29 (91-95). "He who does not till the earth, O Spitama Zarathustra! with the left arm and the right, with the right arm and the left, unto him thus says the Earth : "O thou man! who dost not till me with the left arm and the right, with the right arm and the left, ever shalt thou stand at the door of the stranger, among those who beg for bread; the refuse and the crumbs of the bread are brought unto thee *, brought by those who have profusion of wealth."
30 (96). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! What is the food that fills the Religion of Mazda 3 ?
Ahura Mazda answered: 'It is sowing corn again and again, O Spitama Zarathustra !
31 (99). "He who sows corn, sows righteousness : he makes the Religion of Mazda walk, he suckles the Religion of Mazda ; as well as he could do with a hundred man's feet, with a thousand woman's breasts 4, with ten thousand sacrificial formulas 8.
32 (105). "When barley was created, the Daêvas
1. When something good grows up, it will grow up for thee first' (Comm.) Perhaps: 'bringing to thee profusion of corn' (some say, she will bring to thee 15 for 10;' Comm.)
: "They take for themselves what is good and send to thee what is bad' (Comm.)
• Literally, What is the stomach of the law?'
+ He makes the Religion of Mazda as fat as a child could be made by means of a hundred feet, that is to say, of fifty servants walking to rock him ; of a thousand breasts, that is, of five hundred nurses' (Comm.)
o With the recitation of 10,000 Yênghệ hâtăm, that is to say, as if one had performed for his weal as many sacrifices as contain 10,000 Yênghê hêtam.
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