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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I, 15. VISHNU AND THE GODDESS OF THE EARTH.
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hymns recited at the beginning of the animal sacrifice; his ornaments were the whirlpool of the milk poured into the heated vessel (at the Pravargya ceremony introductory to the Soma-sacrifice).
9. All sorts of sacred texts (the Gâyatri and others) were his path in marching; the mysterious Upanishads (the Vedânta) were his couch; he was accompanied by his consort Khâyâ (Lakshmi); he was in size like the Manisringa mountain.
10. The lord, the creator, the great Yogin, plunging into the one ocean from love of the world,
11. Raised up, with the edge of his tusks, the earth bounded by the sea together with its mountains, forests, and groves, which was immersed in the water of the seven oceans now become) one ocean, and created the universe anew.
12. Thus the whole earth, after having sunk into (the lower region called) Rasâtala, was in the first place raised in the boar-incarnation by Vishnu, who took compassion upon the living beings.
13, 14. Then, after having raised the earth, the destroyer of Madhu placed and fixed it upon its own (former) seat (upon the oceans) and distributed the waters upon it according to their own (former) station, conducting the floods of the oceans into the oceans, the water of the rivers into the rivers, the water of the tanks into the tanks, and the water of the lakes into the lakes.
15. He created the seven (lower regions called) Pâtâlas 1 and the seven worlds, the seven Dvipas
15. The seven Pâtâlas are, Atala, Vitala, Sutala, Mahâtala, Rasatala, Talâtala, and Pâtâla; the seven worlds are, Bhûr-loka, Bhuvarloka, Svar-loka, Mahar-loka, Ganar-loka, Tapar-loka, and Satya
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