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.
FARGARD XXII. It has already been seen that of all healers, the most powerful is the one who treats with the Holy Word (Mãthra Spenta), that is with sacred spells (Farg. VII, 44). Of all sacred spells, the most efficacious is the Airyamå ishyo, which forms the fifty-fourth Hå of the Yasna. This is expressed under a mythological form in the following Fargard (cf. Westergaard's Fragments, IV).
Angra Mainyu having created 99,999 diseases, Ahura applies for remedy to the Holy Word (Mãthra Spenta ; $ 1-5).—How shall I manage? asks Māthra Spenta (§ 16). Abura sends his messenger to Airyaman with the same request.
This Fargard is unfinished or, more correctly, the end of it is understood. Airyaman comes at once to Ahura's call, and digs nine furrows. It is no doubt in order to perform the Barashnům", by the virtue of which the strength of the demon and of the demon's work will be broken. The Fargard ends therefore with spells against sickness and against death, added to the usual spells of the ordinary Barashnům.
1. Ahura Mazda spake unto Spitama Zarathustra, saying: 'I, Ahura Mazda, the Maker of all good things, when I made this mansion, the beautiful, the shining, seen afar (there may I go up, there may I arrive !)
2 (5). "Then the ruffian looked at me s; the ruffian Angra Mainyu, the deadly, wrought against me nine diseases, and ninety, and nine hundred, and nine thousand, and nine times ten thousand diseases. So mayst thou heal me, thou most glorious Mathra Spenta !
3 (8). Unto thee will I give in return a thou
See Farg. IX. "The Garôtmân' (Comm.), Paradise.
And cast on me the evil eye ; "it was by casting the evil eye on the good creatures of Ormazd that Ahriman corrupted them' (Eznig, Refutatio Haeresiarum II). Cf. Farg. XX, 3.
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