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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VENDIDAD.
Holy One! When are sweetness and fatness to come back again to that land and to those fields, with health and healing, with fulness and increase and growth, and a growing of corn and grass ?
55, 56 (192, 193). Ahura Mazda answered : 'Sweetness and fatness will never come back again to that land and to those fields, with health and healing, with fulness and increase and growth, and a growing of corn and grass, until that ungodly Ashemaogha has been smitten to death on the spot, and the holy Sraosha of that place has been offered up a sacrifice!, for three days and three nights, with fire blazing, with Baresma tied up, and with Haoma prepared.
57 (196). "Then sweetness and fatness will come back again to that land and to those fields, with health and healing, with fulness and increase and growth, and a growing of corn and grass.'
FARGARD X Nowadays, before laying the dead in the coffin, two priests recite the Ahunavaiti Gatha (Yasna XXVIII-XXXIV): it is the so-called Gåh sârnâ (chanting of the Gathas: gâthâo sråvayêiti). From the following Fargard it appears that formerly all the five Gathas and the Yasna Haptanghaiti were recited. Certain stanzas were recited several times and with a certain emphasis (framrava): and they were followed with certain spells. The object of this Fargard is to show which are those stanzas, how many times each was recited, and to give the corresponding spells.
1. Zarathustra asked Ahura Mazda: 'O Ahura Mazda ! most beneficent Spirit, Maker of the ma
The sadis sacrifice, that is to say, the sacrifice that is offered up to Sraosha for three days and three nights after the death of a man for the salvation of his soul.
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