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 XIX.
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material world, thou Holy One! (he was sitting by the upper bank of the Darega', before Ahura Mazda, before the good Vohu-mano, before Asha Vahista, Khshathra Vairya, and Spenta Årmaiti;] i
12 (39). How shall I free the world from that Drug, from that evil-doer, Angra Mainyu ? How shall I drive away direct defilement? How indirect defilement ? How shall I drive the Nasu from the house of the worshippers of Mazda ? How shall I cleanse the faithful man? How shall I cleanse the faithful woman?'
13 (42). Ahura Mazda answered: 'Invoke, O Zarathustra ! the good Religion of Mazda.
'Invoke, O Zarathustra ! though thou see them not, the Amesha-Spentas who rule over the seven Karshvares of the earth.
'Invoke, O Zarathustra ! the sovereign Heaven, the boundless Times, and Vayu", whose action is most high.
Invoke, O Zarathustra ! the powerful Wind, made by Mazda; and Spenta (Årmaiti]°, the fair daughter of Ahura Mazda.
14 (46). 'Invoke, O Zarathustra! my Fravashi, who am Ahura Mazda, the greatest, the best, the fairest of all beings, the most solid, the most intelligent, the best shapen, the highest in holiness, and whose soul is the holy Word?!
* See p. 211, note I.
• See $ 39. • By contradistinction to the duration of the world, which is limited to 12,000 years (Bund. XXXIV, 1).
• The Genius of Destiny; cf. Farg. V, 9.
6 The fourth Amesha-Spenta, who in her spiritual character is an incarnation of pious humility and in her material character the Genius of the Earth; cf. Farg. II, 10.
. On the Fravashis, see Yt. XIII. ? Cf. Yasna I, 1.
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