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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VASNA XI.
thy songs, and these thy teachings ?, and these thy truthful ritual words, health 2-imparting, victorygiving, from harmful hatred healing giving.
19. These and thou art mine, and forth let thine exhilarations flow; bright and sparkling let them hold on their (steadfast) way; for light are thine exhilaration(s), and flying lightly come they here. Victory-giving smiteth H(a)oma, victory-giving is it worshipped ; with this Gâthic word we praise it.
20. Praise to the Kine ; praise and victory (be) spoken to her! Food for the Kine, and pasture! For the Kine let thrift use toil; yield thou us foods.'
21. We worship the yellow lofty one; we worship H(a)oma who causes progress, who makes the settlements advance; we worship H(a)oma who drives death afar; yea, we worship all the H(a)oma plants. And we worship (their) blessedness, and the Fravashi of Zarathustra Spitâma, the saint *.
YASNA XI. PRELUDE TO THE H(A)OMA-OFFERING . 1. Three clean creatures (full of blessings) curse betimes while yet invoking, the cow, the horse, and then H(a)oma. The cow cries to her driver thus :
· Ner. possibly figuratively yâh kaskit asvâdanâh. ? Ner. saundaryam.
3 See Y. XLVIII, 5. • The Yênhê hâtãm follows.
* This characteristic fragment is repeated and extended in the later literature of the Parsis. The curse of the cow, horse, and of Haoma (scilicet the priest) when they are stinted, was extended to all domestic animals. It has been difficult to avoid the full metrical rhythm of the original with its jingling cadence. A full freedom is also not avoided.
• Not to the priest;' Ner. grihitaram.
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