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 XX.
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diffused, and that wisdom which is the bounteous Aramaiti, whose are the laws of the Righteous Order, and of those holy creatures who have Righteousness as their first.
VISPARAD XX (Sp. XXIII) 8. 1. (Homage to the Gatha Vohu-khshathra*! We sacrifice to the Vohu-khshathra), (the good kingdom) even the Khshathra-vairya, the kingdom to be desired ; and we sacrifice to the iron-founding , and to the (sacrificial) words correctly spoken which smite (the foe) with victory, and which hold the Daêvas subject.
And we worship that reward and that health, that healing and that progress, that growth and that victorious smiting? (2) which are between the Vohu-khshathra and the Vahistôisti , (and which are acquired by us) by the memorised recital of the good thoughts, good words, and good deeds, for the withstanding of evil thoughts, and words, and deeds; yea, for the undoing of all treacherous thoughts (directed) against me, and of all false words, and unfair deeds. 3. [And we sacrifice to the later Yasna, the heroic Haptanghâiti", (and which as it recurs becomes the holy ritual chief.] i Pahl. fravaft sud.
? Dåthra with K4. 3 This piece from the later Avesta follows Y. LI, in the Vendidâd Sådah.
From the Vendidad Sådah. Associated with this Gâtha from Y. LI, 9. • Compare Y. LI, 3. "Y. LI, 9; also perhaps Y. LIII, 8, 9.
Between; that is, described in the space between the Vohukhshathra and the Vahistoisti, i.e. in Y. LII. See hamistee in Y. LII, 4, and paitistâteê in Visp. XX, 2.
• This would seem misplaced; perhaps Y. XLII is meant, which follows the Haptanghaiti.
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