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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17 (45). "If the dog goes unwillingly, O Spitama Zarathustra, they shall cause the yellow dog with four eyes, or the white dog with yellow ears, to go six times 1 through that way. When either the yellow dog with four eyes, or the white dog with yellow ears, is brought there, then the Drug Nasu fies away to the regions of the north, [in the shape of-a raging fly, with knees and tail sticking out, droning without end, and like unto the foulest Khrafstras.)
18 (47). “If the dog goes unwillingly, they shall cause the yellow dog with four eyes, or the white dog with yellow ears, to go nine times through that way. When either the yellow dog with four eyes, or the white dog with yellow ears, has been brought there, then the Drug Nasu flies away to the regions of the north, [in the shape of a raging fly, with knees and tail sticking out, droning without end, and like unto the foulest Khrafstras.]
19 (49). "An Athravan shall first go along the way and shall say aloud these victorious words: “Yatha a hū vairy 8 2:—The will of the Lord is the law of righteousness.
““The gifts of Vohu-manô 3 to the deeds done in this world for Mazda.
1 Three times suffice if the dog goes of his own accord; if he goes by force, it counts as nothing; if he goes but with reluctance, that shall suffice' (Comm. ad § 18).
* A prayer in frequent use, and considered of great efficacy, generally known as the Ahuna Vairya or Honover. It was by reciting it that Ormazd in his first conflict with Ahriman drove him back to hell (Bund. I).
s Of Paradise, as Vohu-mano (Good Thought) is the doorkeeper of heaven (cf. Farg. XIX, 31).
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