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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FARGARD XIV.
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Khrafstraghna !; the Sraoshô-karana ?; the cup for the Myazda ®; the cups for mixing and dividing“; the regular mortar 5; the Haoma cups e ; and the
Baresma.
9 (32). “He shall godly and piously give to godly men a set of all the war implements of which the warriors make use, to redeem his own soul;
The first being a javelin, the second a sword, the third a club, the fourth a bow, the fifth a saddle with a quiver and thirty brass-headed arrows, the sixth a sling with arm-string and with thirty sling stones ? ;
The seventh a cuirass, the eighth a hauberk , the ninth a tunic, the tenth a helmet, the eleventh a girdle, the twelfth a pair of greaves.
10 (41). He shall godly and piously give to godly men a set of all the implements of which the
Paitidana (Parsi Penôm), consisting of two pieces of white cotton cloth, hanging loosely from the bridge of the nose to, at least, two inches below the mouth, and tied with two strings at the back of the head' (Haug, Essays, and ed. p. 243, n. 1; cf. Comm. ad Farg. XVIII, 1, and Anquetil II, 530).
1 The Khrafstra-killer;' an instrument for killing snakes, &c. It is a stick with a leather thong at its end, something like the Indian fly-Alap. ? See General Introduction.
Doubtful.. • The cup in which the juice of the hôm and of the urvarâm (the twigs of hadhâ-naêpata which are pounded together with the hôm) is received from the mortar (Comm.)
* The mortar with its pestle.
• The cup on which twigs of Haoma are laid before being pounded, the so-called tashtah (Anquetil II, 533); "some say, the hôm-strainer' [a saucer with nine holes), Comm.
* These are six offensive arms: the next six are defensive arms.Cf. W. Jackson : Herodotus VII, 61, or the Arms of the Ancient Persians illustrated from Iranian Sources; New York, 1894.
8.Going from the helm to the cuirass' (Comm.) • Under the cuirass' (Comm.)
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