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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MIHIR NYÂYIS.
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Unto the bright, undying, shining, swift-horsed Sun;
Be propitiation, with sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification ....
Ashem V ohû: Holiness is the best of all good....
[We sacrifice] unto the Ahurian waters, the waters of Ahura, with excellent libations, with finest libations, with libations piously strained
Ashem Vohû: Holiness is the best of all good ....
[Give) unto that man brightness and glory, give him health of body, .... give him the bright, all-happy, blissful abode of the holy Ones.
II. MIHIR NYÂYIS. 14. Hail unto thee, O Ahura Mazda, in the threefold way! [Hail unto thee) before all other creatures !
Hail unto you, O Amesha-Spentas, who are all of you of one accord with the Sun!
May this prayer come unto Ahura Mazda | May it come unto the Amesha-Spentas ! May it come unto the Fravashis of the holy Ones! May it come unto the sovereign Vayu of the long Period!
2. May Ahura Mazda be rejoicedl....
3. I praise well-thought, well-spoken, and well-done thoughts, words, and deeds ....
4. I give sacrifice and prayer unto you, O Amesha-Spentas..... 5. Hail to Ahura Mazdal.... May I grow in health of body through Vohu-Manô, Khshathra, and Asha, and come to that luminous space, to that highest of all high things, when the world, O Spenta Mainyu, has come to an end!
66. We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, who is truth-speaking, a chief in assemblies, with a thousand ears, well-shapen, with ten thousand
1 The whole of the Khôrshed Yast is inserted here.
? Rivers considered as Ahura's wives (cf. Ormazd et Ahriman, $ 32).
* From Yasna LXVIII, 10 (LXVII, 30); cf. p. 34. • 88 I-5=Khôrshed Nyayis, $$ I-5. $ $$ 6-7=Khôrshed Nyayis, 88 6-7. [23]
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