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.
Kem-nå mazda :-What protector hast thou given unto me, O Mazda! while the hate of the wicked encompasses me? Whom but thy Åtar and Vohu-manô, through whose work I keep on the world of Righteousness ? Reveal therefore to me thy Religion as thy rule!
Ke verethrem-gå :- Who is the victorious who will protect thy teaching? Make it clear that I am the guide for both worlds. May Sraosha come with Vohu-mand and help whomsoever thou pleasest, O Mazda !
Keep us from our hater, O Mazda and Årmaiti Spenta ! Perish, O fiendish Drug! Perish, O brood of the fiend ! Perish, Oworld of the fiend! Perish away, O Drug! Perish away to the regions of the north, never more to give unto death the living world of Righteousness ? !]
FARGARD XXI. I (I). Praise of the holy bull. II (3-3). Invocation addressed to rain as a healing power.
III a (4-7). Joint invocation addressed to the waters and to the light of the sun.
III b (8-11). Joint invocation addressed to the waters and to the light of the moon.
III c (12-17). Joint invocation addressed to the waters and to the light of the stars.
IV (18-21). Spells against disease.
The largest part of this Fargard is filled with a uniform spell, intended, as it seems, for the protection of lying-in women (S$ 6-7, 10-11, 14-15), who are under the special care of Ardvî Sûra Anahita, the great goddess of the waters. That spell is repeated three times, in a joint invocation to the sun, to the moon, and to the stars respectively; that strange association is perhaps owing to the fact that both the light and the waters spring up from the Hara Berezaiti and return there (see p. 232, note 1).
1 See Farg. VIII, 19-20.
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