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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VISPARAD I.
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with holiness, the abundantly brilliant' and Mazdamade, the holy lords of the ritual order.
And I announce, and (will) complete (my Yasna) to the Gâtha Spentâ-mainyu, the holy, ruling in the ritual order ; and I celebrate and will complete (my Yasna) to Verethraghna (the blow of victory 2) Ahura-given, the holy lord of the ritual order.
7. And I announce, and (will) complete (my Yasna) to the Gâtha Vohu-khshathra, holy, ruling in the ritual order, and to Mithra of the wide pastures, and to Raman Hvâstra, the holy lords of the ritual order. And I celebrate and will complete my Yasna to the Gâtha Vahistôisti, the holy, ruling in the ritual order. And I celebrate and will complete my Yasna to the good and pious Prayer for blessings, the benediction of the pious 3, and to that Yazad, the redoubted and swift Curse of the wise, the holy lord of the ritual order.
8. And I announce, and (will) complete (my Yasna) to the Airyema-ishyô, the holy lord of the ritual order, and to the Fshashô-mãthra, and to that lofty lord Hadhaokhdha “, the holy lord of the ritual order.
9. And I announce, and (will) complete (my Yasna) to the questions asked of Ahura, and to the lore of Ahura, to the Ahurian Dahvyuma (Dahyuma), and to the Ahurian Zarathustrôtema, holy lords of the ritual order, and to the farm-house with its pastures
1 This sense is most obvious.
· The 'fiend-smiting' is the common meaning of vritrahá; but verethra is clearly 'victory' in Zend; vritrá also equals defensive valour.
8 Can dahmaheka mean the departed saint' here? • A lost part of the Avesta, two fragments of which only survive.
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