Zend Avesta Part 03

SR No.: 007673
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: L H Mills
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1887
Total Pages: 2618
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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YASNA 1.
attains His ends the most infallibly, because of His Righteous Order, to Him who disposes our minds aright?, who sends His joy-creating grace afar ; who made us, and has fashioned us, and who has nourished and protected us, who is the most bounteous Spirits !
2. I announce and I (will) complete (my Yasna) to the Good Mind, and to Righteousness the Best, and to the Sovereignty which is to be desired, and to Piety the Bountiful, and to the two, the Universal Weal and Immortality, to the body of the Kine, and to the Kine's Soul, and to the Fire of Ahura Mazda, that one who more than * (all) the Bountiful Immortals has made most effort (for our succour)!
3. And I announce and I (will) complete (my Yasna) to the Asnya, the day-lords of the ritual order, to Havani the holy, the lord of the ritual order; and I celebrate, and I (will) complete (my Yasna) to Sâvanghi and to Visya, the holy lord(s) of the ritual order. And I announce and (will) complete (my Yasna) to Mithra of the wide pastures, of the thousand ears, and of the myriad eyes, the Yazad of the spoken 8 name, and to Râman Hvâstra.
divinities are said to be tanu-mãthra, having the Mathra as their body; that is, incarnate in the Mathra.
1 Disposing aright as to mind.' · Pahlavi parvard. • Elsewhere the Spenta Mainyu is spoken of as His possession.
• The Fire seems almost spoken of as one of the Amesha Spenta.
• Lords of the ritual because ruling as chief at the time of their mention, and in this sense regarded as genii protecting all ritual seasons and times of their class. Visya presides over the Vis; Såvanghi, over cattle.
• Having an especial Yast.
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