Zend Avesta Part 02

SR No.: 007672
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Darmesteter
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1883
Total Pages: 2221
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 41 MB

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YASNA I.
pleted '), who smites with victory, and furthers the settlements, and to Rashnu?, the most just, and to Arstât s, who advances the settlements, and causes them to increase.
8. And I announce and I complete (my Yasna) to the Mâhya, the monthly festivals, lords of the ritual order, to the new and the later moon, the holy lord of the ritual order, and to the full moon which scatters night.
9. And I announce and complete (my Yasna). to the Yâirya, yearly feasts, the holy lords of the ritual order. I celebrate and complete (my Yasna) to Maidyô-zaremya", the holy lord of the ritual order, and to Maidyo-shema, the holy lord of the ritual order, and to Paitishahya, and to Ayathrima the advancer, and the spender of the strength of males", the holy lord of the ritual order, and to Maidhyâirya, the holy lord of the ritual order, and to Hamaspathmaêdhaya, the holy lord of the ritual order; yea, I celebrate and complete my Yasna to the seasons, lords of the ritual order.
10. And I announce and complete (my Yasna) to all those who are the thirty and three ? lords of the ritual order, which, coming the nearest, are around about Hâvani, and which (as in their festivals) were
* I should say that the suffix has this force here as in close connection with ashyo.
Genius of rectitude. . Rectitude in another form. • Literally, 'to the moon within,' showing little light. o See the Afrînagân.
6 The rutting season. Haug first called attention to the striking coincidence with the Indian. In the Aitareya and Satapatha Brâhmanas, in the Atharvaveda, and in the Ramayana, the gods are brought up to the number thirty-three. The names differ somewhat however. (See Essays, ed. West, 2nd edition, p. 276; see also Rv. 240, 9; 250, 2.)
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