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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YASTS AND SÎRÔZAHS.
this wide, round earth, whose ends lie afar, and surveys everything that is between the earth and the heavens,
96. 'Swinging in his hands a club with a hundred knots, a hundred edges, that rushes forwards and fells men down; a club cast out of red brass, of strong, golden brass; the strongest of all weapons, the most victorious of all weapons ? ;
97. 'From whom Angra Mainyu, who is all death, flees away in fear ; from whom Aêshma, the evildoing Peshôtanu ?, flees away in fear; from whom the long-handed Bushyāsta 3 flees away in fear; from whom all the Daêvas unseen and the Varenya fiends flee away in fear.
98. 'Oh! may we never fall across the rush of Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, when in anger 6! May Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, never smite us in his anger; he who stands up upon this earth as the strongest of all gods, the most valiant of all gods, the most energetic of all gods, the swiftest of all gods, the most fiend-smiting of all gods, he, Mithra, the lord of wide pastures 6.
For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth being heard ....
XXV.
99. "We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake;
*From whom all the Daêvas unseen and the Varenya fiends flee away in fear?
1 Cf. § 132. s See ibid. IV, 24. 6 Cf. Yt. X, 69. ? Cf. § 97.
2 See Vend. Introd. V, 19. 4 Cf. § 69. 8 $$ 97-98=134-135.
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