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.
mazda ad môi ... dau aham (Yas. XXXIV, 5), à airyamâ ishyo... masatâ mazdau' (Yas. LIV. 1).
13 (22). After thou hast said those Kathrusâmratas four times, thou shalt say aloud these victorious, most healing words :
""I drive away Aêshma, the fiend of the murderous spears, I drive away the daêva Akatasha *, from this house, from this borough, from this town, from this land; from the very body of the man defiled by the dead, from the very body of the woman defiled by the dead; from the master of the house, from the lord of the borough, from the lord of the town, from the lord of the land; from the whole of the world of Righteousness.
14 (24). ““I drive away the Varenya daêvas", I drive away the wind-daêva, from this house, from this borough, from this town, from this land; from the very body of the man defiled by the dead, from the very body of the woman defiled by the dead; from the master of the house, from the lord of the borough, from the lord of the town, from the lord of the land; from the whole of the world of Righteousness."
15 (25). “These are the words in the Gathas that
| Translated Farg. XI, 14.
Translated Farg. XX, 11; cf. XI, 7. 8 A&shma, Khishm, the incarnation of anger: he sows quarrel and war. He is the chief source of evil for the creatures of Ormazd, and the Kayani heroes mostly perished through him' (Bund. XXVIII, 17).
• The fiend who corrupts and perverts men.
• The fiendish inhabitants of Varena (Gîlân). Varena, like the neighbouring Mâzana (Mazandarân), was peopled with savage, non-Aryan natives, who were considered men-demons. Cf. Farg. I, 18 and notes.
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