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

Page 71

ÂBÂN YAST.
III. 12. 'Offer up a sacrifice, Spitama Zarathustra I unto this spring of mine, Ardvi Sûra Anâhita !....
13. Whom four horses carry, all white, of one and the same colour, of the same blood, tall, crushing down the hates of all haters, of the Daêvas and men, of the Yâtus and Pairikas, of the oppressors, of the blind and of the deaf?.
'For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice ....
IV.
14. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathustra I unto this spring of mine, Ardvi Sûra Anâhita .....
15. 'Strong and bright, tall and beautiful of form, who sends down by day and by night a flow of motherly: waters as large as the whole of the waters that run along the earth, and who runs powerfully
For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice ....
V.
16. Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathustral unto this spring of mine, Ardvi Sûra Anâhita ....
17. "To her did the Maker Ahura Mazda offer up a sacrifices in the Airyana Vaêgah, by the good river Dâitya ; with the Haoma and meat, with the baresma, with the wisdom of the tongue, with the holy spells, with the words, with the deeds, with the libations, and with the rightly-spoken words?.
* As above, $ 10.
• Cf. p. 26, note 2. : Doubtful; cf. Yt. VIII, 47.
Cf. above, $ 3. 5 Cf. Vend. Introd. IV, 9, 40. This is the heavenly prototype of the Mazdean sacrifice as it was later shown to men by Zarathustra; cf. $ 101. o Cf. Yt. I, 4 and notes.
? Cf. Yt. III, 18.
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