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.
the mountain of the holy Questions, towards the forest of the holy Questions.
20 (54). Nine kinds of stallions brought he with him, the vow-fulfilling Airyaman.
Nine kinds of camels brought he with him, the vow-fulfilling Airyaman.
Nine kinds of bulls brought he with him, the vow-fulfilling Airyaman.
Nine kinds of small cattle brought he with him, the vow-fulfilling Airyaman.
He brought with him the nine twigs 8; he drew along nine furrows“.
(21 6. 'I drive away Ishire and I drive away Aghdire ; I drive away Aghra and I drive away Ughra; I drive away sickness and I drive away death; I drive away pain and I drive away fever ; I drive away Sarana and I drive away Sårastya; I drive away Azana and I drive away Asahva ; I drive away Kurugha and I drive away Azivâka ; I drive away Duruka and I drive away Astairya. I drive away the evil eye, rottenness, and infection which Angra Mainyu has created against the bodies of mortals.
22. 'I drive away all manner of sickness and death, all the Yatus and Pairikas, and all the wicked Gainis.
23. "May the vow-fulfilling Airyaman come here, for the men and women of Zarathustra to rejoice, for Vohu
1 The mountain where the holy conversations ' between Ormazd and Zoroaster took place (cf. Farg. XIX, 11).
• According to Frâmjî, He brought with him the strength of nine stallions,' to infuse it into the sick man (cf. Yasht VIII, 24).
That is to say, the nine-knotted stick' (Frâmjî ; cf. Farg. IX, 14).
To perform the Barashnům, the great service of the NirangDin, through which all evil, moral and natural, including evil passions, disease, and death will be removed' (Wilson, The Parsi Religion, p. 341).
From the Vendidåd Såda; as Farg. XX, 9-13.
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