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.
place of the waters ?, rising up and going down, up the aerial way and down the earth, down the earth and up the aerial way ? : thus rise up and roll along! thou in whose rising and growing Ahura Mazda made the aerial way.
5 (20). 'Up! rise up and roll along ! thou swifthorsed Sun, above Hara Berezaiti, and produce light for the world (and mayst thou (O man !] rise up there, if thou art to abide in Garð-nmânem ) *, along the path made by Mazda, along the way made by the gods, the watery way they opened.
6 (23). “And the Holy Word shall keep away the evil 6 : Of thee (O child!] I will cleanse the birth and growth; of thee [O woman !] I will make the body and the strength pure; I make thee rich in children and rich in milk;
Waters and light are believed to flow from the same spring and in the same bed: As the light comes in through Alborz (Hara Berezaiti) and goes out through Alborz, so water also comes out through Alborz and goes away through Alborz' (Bund. XX, 4). Every day the sun, moon, and stars rise up from Alborz, and every day all the waters on the earth come back together to the sea Vouru-kasha, and there collected come down again to the earth from the peaks of Alborz (Gr. Rav. 431). As light comes from three different sources (the sun, the moon, and the stars), the waters are invoked three times, first in company with the sun, then with the moon, lastly with the stars, as if there should be three different movements of the rain connected with the three movements of light.
· Waters come down from the sky to the earth and rise back from the earth to the sky (see Farg. V, 16 seq.)
If thou art a righteous man’ (Comm.) • The translation of this clause is doubtful
The spell refers to the cleansing and generative power of the waters; cf. the invocation to Ardvi Sara, Farg. VII, 16: the waters are supposed to make females fertile as they make the earth. This spell was probably pronounced to facilitate childbirth.
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