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.
LV, 9.
twice-born man may be removed by repeated Primâyẩmas.
9. It is called a Prânâyâma, if a man, stopping the breath (which comes from the mouth and from the nostrils), recites the Gâyatri three times, together with the Vyâhritis ('words')?, with the sacred syllable Om, and with the (text called) Siras ?
10. The lord of creatures (Brahman) has milked out from the three Vedas the letter A, the letter U, and the letter M (of which the sacred syllable Om is composed), and (the three sacred words) Bhūh, Bhuvah, Svah (earth, the atmosphere, and heaven).
11. The lord of creatures, the supreme deity, has also milked out from the three Vedas successively the three verses of the sacred stanza which begins with the word 'tad,' and is called Sâvitri (or Gâyatri).
12. By muttering, every morning and evening, that syllable and that stanza, preceded by the three 'words,'a Brâhmana will obtain that religious merit which the (study of the) Veda confers, just as if he had actually studied the Veda.
13. By repeating those three (Om, the 'words,' and the Gâyatri every day) for a month out of the village, a thousand times, a twice-born man is purified even from a mortal sin, as a snake (is freed) from its withered skin.
14. Any member of the Brâhmana, Kshatriya, or Vaisya castes, who does not know those three texts,
9. The three Vyâhritis, words,' or Mahâvyâhritis, 'great words,' are quoted in the next Sloka. — ? It begins with the words, O ye waters, who are splendour and ambrosia.' (Nand., and Mitakshara on Y. I, 23.)
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