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 iv.
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(revered and) chosen, let the priest speak forth to me.
(The Ratu responds): As the Ahd to be (revered and) chosen, let him who is the Zaotar speak 1 forth to me.
(The Zaotar again): So let the Ratu from his Righteousness, holy and learned, speak forth !
YASNA IV.
THE OFFERING TAKES PLACE. 1. These good thoughts, good words, and good deeds ?, these Haomas, meat-offerings, and Zaothras, this Baresman spread with sanctity, this Aesh, and the two, Haurvatât (who guards the water) and Ameretatât (who guards the plants and wood), even the flesh, the Haoma and Haoma-juice, the woodbillets, and their perfume, this sacred lordship 8 and chieftainships, and the timely prayer with blessing, and the heard recital of the Gathas, and the well-said Mãthras, these all we offer, and make known with celebrations (here).
2. Yea, these do we announce with celebrations, and we present them to Ahura Mazda, and to Sraosha
rubric is correct. The sentence as uttered by the priest seems difficult.
· Present, or infin. for imperative (?).
? The fact that somewhat of a more technical sumatí, sůktá, sukritá adheres to these expressions in this place must not for a moment induce us to suppose that their deeper meaning was lost. All good thoughts, words, and deeds culminated in the ritual, as in an enlightened high ecclesiasticism. They were nourished by it, and not lost in it. (Expressions are here varied.)
* The prominence and supremacy of each deity, or genius, while he is especially the object of worship in the ritual order, the expressions being taken from the Ahuna-vairya.
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