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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mine : 'I invoke the holy world, made by Ahura Mazda.
'I invoke the earth made by Ahura, the water made by Mazda, the holy trees.
I invoke the sea Vouru-kasha ? I invoke the beautiful Heaven ? 'I invoke the endless and sovereign Lights.'
36 (120). 'I invoke the bright, blissful Paradise of the Holy Ones.
I invoke the Garð-nmânem, the abode of Ahura Mazda, the abode of the Amesha-Spentas, the abode of all the other holy beings.
'I invoke the sovereign Place of Eternal Weal“, and the Kinvad bridge made by Mazda.
37 (123). 'I invoke the good Saoka", who has the good eye.
I invoke the whole creation of weal. I invoke the mighty Fravashise of the righteous. 'I invoke Verethraghna?, made by Ahura, who wears the Glory made by Mazda 8.
See Farg. V, 15 seq. * Asman, the highest heaven, as distinguished from the firmament (thwasha) that lies nearer the earth.
• The endless Light is the place of Ormazd' (Bund. I); it is Infinite Space conceived as luminous.
• Misvâna gåtva, another name of the heavenly spaces; it designates heaven as the abode and source of all blessings, of all savah, or saoka.
" A Genius defined, 'Genius of the good eye,' by opposition to the bad eye.' Saoka (S0k) is an auxiliary to Mithra (Mihr); she receives first, from above, all the good destined to man, and transmits it to the lower sky or firmament (which is the seat of Destiny) through the moon and Ardvisor (Gr. Bund.)
. See Yt. XIII. · The Genius of Victory (Bahrâm). See Yt. XIV.
• The huarenÔ (Khurra or Farr) or light of sovereignty. Cf. § 39 and see Yt. XIX.
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