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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ÂBÂN YASTI
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a glorious race ?, wearing along her....? a mantle fully embroidered with gold;
127. 'Ever holding the baresma in her hand, according to the rules, she wears square golden earrings on her ears bored ?, and a golden necklace around her beautiful neck, she, the nobly born Ardvi Sûra Anâhita ; and she girded her waist tightly, so that her breasts may be well-shaped, that they may be tightly pressed 4.
128. “Upon her head Ardvi Sara Anâhita bound a golden crown, with a hundred stars, with eight rays, a fine ...., a well-made crown, in the shape of a ....?, with fillets streaming down.
129. 'She is clothed with garments of beaver 8, Ardvi Sara Anâhita; with the skin of thirty beavers of those that bear four young ones, that are the finest kind of beavers; for the skin of the beaver that lives in water is the finest-coloured of all skins, and when worked at the right time it shines to the eye with full sheen of silver and gold.
130. 'Here, O good, most beneficent Ardvi Sara Anâhita! I beg of thee this favour: that I, fully blessed, may conquer large kingdoms, rich in horses', with high tributes, with snorting horses, sounding chariots, flashing swords, rich in aliments, with stores of food, with well-scented beds 10; that I may have
1 Cf. $$ 64, 78.
? Zaosa ; cf. $ 7, note 2. .. . Doubtful (sispemna, from sif, bew) • Doubtful.
Gems. 1.0.7 Anupôithwaitim.
;?? Ratha; the usual meaning of ratha is 'a chariot;' perhaps ; the round shape of the chest of a chariot is meant. -8 Possibly otter, Vend. XIV.
• Doubtful. . 20 Cf. Yt. XVII, 7.
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