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dethroned?. She vainly thinks to foil us, and would beguile both Fire-priest and H(a)oma ; but she herself, deceived therein, shall perish. And when she sits at home ?, and wrongly eats of H(a)oma's offering, priest's mother will that never make her, nor give her holy 3 sons !
16. To five do I belong, to five others do I not; of the good thought am I, of the evil am I not; of the good word am I, of the evil am I not; of the good deed am I, and of the evil, not.
To Obedience am I given, and to deaf disobedience, not; to the saint do I belong, and to the wicked, not; and so from this on till the ending shall be the spirits' parting. (The two shall here divide.)
17. Thereupon spake Zarathustra: Praise to H(a)oma, Mazda-made. Good is H(a)oma, Mazdamade. All the plants of H(a)oma praise I, on the heights of lofty mountains, in the gorges of the valleys, in the clefts (of sundered hill-sides) cut for the bundles bound by women. From the silver cup I pour Thee to the golden chalice over 6. Let me not thy (sacred) liquor spill to earth, of precious cost.
18. These are thy Gâthas, holy H(a)oma, these
"I would correct to a form of khratu.
Compare the avoiding the service mentioned by the Pahlavi translator on Y. LIII, 5. • Or, more safely, 'many sons.'
• Haoma speaks. • Here the priest evidently manipulates the cups containing the Haoma-juice.
The application of this term here seems to point to a high antiquity for the Haoma Yast; if not in the present piece, which is not so old as the Gathas, then in previous hymns to Haoma of which this Yast is an improvement, or extension.
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| SR No. | 007673 |
| Book Title | Zend Avesta Part 03 |
| 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 |