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.
Ever will that bread be burning coal upon thy head 1.
The good, holy Râta ?, made by Mazda, goes and nurses thy bright offspring $'
37. Zarathustra addressed Vistâspa, saying: 'O young king Vistâspa! The Law of Mazda, O my son! will give thy offspring the victorious strength that destroys the fiends.
Let no thought of Angra Mainyu ever infect thee, so that thou shouldst indulge in evil lusts, make derision and idolatry, and shut (to the poor) the door of thy house 4.
386. Atar thus blesses the man who brings incense to him, being pleased with him and not angry, and fed as he required: “May herds of oxen grow for thee, and increase of sons! May fate and its decrees bring thee the boons thou wishest for! Therefore do thou invoke and praise (me) excellently in this glorious world! That I may have unceasing food, full of the glory of Mazda 6 and with which I am well pleased."
39. 'O Mazda! take for thyself the words of our praise : of these words I speak and speak again, the strength and victorious vigour, the power of health and healing, the fulness, increase, and growth.
· Bring it together with the words of hymns up to the Garô-nmâna of Ahura Mazda. He will? first
1 Hvarishnî dâgh pun rồismanî lak yahvùnât (Pahl. Comm.). 2 Charity. s If thou art charitable, thy children will thrive. See Yt. XXII, 13.
Cf. Vend. XVIII, 27. 6 Hvarnamazdau (W.).
? He who will pronounce all prayers and hymns: the full formula is found in the âbân Nyâyis, $ 8.
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