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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VISHNU.
XXXI, 1.
frees him from all pain (in this world and the next), and confers immortality (or final liberation) upon him, that man let the student consider as his (true) father and mother : gratefully acknowledging the debt he owes him, he must never grieve him.
XXXI. 1. A man has three Atigurus (or specially venerable superiors) :
2. His father, his mother, and his spiritual teacher.
3. To them he must always pay obedience. 4. What they say, that he must do.
5. And he must do what is agreeable and serviceable to them. 6. Let him never do anything without their leave.
7. Those three are equal to the three Vedas (Rig-veda, Sâma-veda, and Yagur-veda), they are equal to the three gods (Brahman, Vishnu, and Siva), they are equal to the three worlds (of men, of gods, and of Brahman), they are equal to the three fires.
8. The father is the Gârhapatya (or household) fire, the mother is the Dakshina (or ceremonial) fire, and the spiritual teacher is the Ahavaniya (or sacrificial) fire.
9. He pays regard to all his duties, who pays regard to those three; he who shows no regard to
XXXI. 1-6. M. II, 225, 226, 228, 229; Âpast. I, 4, 14, 6; Gaut. II, 50, 51.-7. M. II, 230. – 8. M. II, 231; Apast. I, 1, 3, 44. - 9. M. II, 234. — 10. M. II, 233.
9. 'The father is said to be of the same nature as the Gârlapatya fire, because the Ahavanîya is produced from it; the mother is said to be of the same nature as the Dakshina fire, because it
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