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.
is the son of Ahura in the deep, he is the only master of the deep?.
29. Vayu, who works highly, granted him that boon, as the Maker, Ahura Mazda, did pursue it. We sacrifice to the holy Vayu ....
For his brightness and glory, I will offer unto him a sacrifice worth being heard ....
VIII. 30. I will sacrifice to the Waters and to Him who divides them .....
To this Vayu do we sacrifice, this Vayu do we invoke ....
31. To him did Aurvasara2, the lord of the country, offer up a sacrifice, towards the White Forest ), by the White Forest, on the border of the White Forest, on a golden throne, under golden beams and a golden canopy, with bundles of baresma and offerings of full-boiling (milk).
32. He begged of him a boon, saying: 'Grant me this, O Vayu! who dost work highly, that the gallant Husravah, he who unites the Aryan nations into one kingdom 4, may not smite us; that I may flee from king Husravah; ....
1 A disconnected allusion to the struggle of Keresâspa with the Gandarewa (Yt. V, 38, text and notes; XIX, 41). On the words the son of Ahura ....' cf. Ormazd et Ahriman, p. 215, note 1.
2 No other mention is made of Aurvasara in the Avesta, unless he is alluded to in Yt. V, 50. He does not appear to have been known to Firdausi.
& Spaêtinis razūra is called the chief of forests' (Bund. XXIV, 16). According to the Bahman Yast (III, 9), it was the seat of the last and decisive battle between Argâsp and Gastâsp. - Cf. Yt. V, 49; IX, 21.
. Cf. Yt. V, 50.
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