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 SİRÔZAHS.
15. Do not turn thy look from me! turn thy mercy towards me, O great Ashi! thou art wellmade and of a noble seed 1; thou art sovereign at thy wish; thou art Glory in a bodily form.
16. Thy father is Ahura Mazda, the greatest of all gods, the best of all gods; thy mother is Årmaiti Spenta; thy brothers are Sraosha 2, a god of Asha, and Rashnu , tall and strong, and Mithra “, the lord of wide pastures, who has ten thousand spies and a thousand ears; thy sister is the Law of the worshippers of Mazda.
17. Praised of the gods, unoffended by the righteous", the great Ashi Vanguhi stood up on her chariot, thus speaking : Who art thou who dost invoke me, whose voice is to my ear the sweetest of all that invoked me most?'
18. And he said aloud: 'I am Spitama Zarathustra, who, first of mortals, recited the praise of the excellent Asha' and offered up sacrifice unto Ahura Mazda and the Amesha-Spentas; in whose birth and growth the waters and the plants rejoiced ; in whose birth and growth the waters and the plants grew; in whose birth and growth all the creatures of the good creation cried out, Hail !
19. 'In whose birth and growth Angra Mainyu rushed away from this wide, round earth, whose ends lie afar, and he, the evil-doing Angra Mainyu, who is all death, said: “All the gods together
1 Born from the gods; cf. Yt. XXII, 9. ? See Yt. XI.
& See Yt. XII. 4 See Yt. X. o Or, 'doing no harm to the righteous.' 6 Zarathustra.
7 The Ahuna Vairya. 8 Cf. Yt. XIII, 93.
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