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YASNA XIX.
from the better world; yea, so far off will I withdraw it as the earth is large and wide; [and this earth is as long as it is broad'].
8. And I pronounced this saying which contains its Ahů and its Ratu 3 before the creation of this heaven, before the making of the waters, and the plants, and the four-footed kine, before the birth of the holy biped man, before this sun with its body made for the acquisition of the creation of the Bountiful Immortals 4
9. And the more bountiful of the two Spirits (Ahura) declared to me? (Zarathustra) the entire creation of the pure, that which exists at present, that which is in the course of emerging into existence ®, and that which shall be, with reference to the performance and realisation of the actions of a life devoted to Mazda.'
10. And this word is the most emphatic of the words which have ever been pronounced, or which are 10 now spoken, or which shall be spoken in future; for (the eminence of) this utterance is a thing of such a nature, that if all the corporeal and living world
Im here equals iyám.
Pazand. 3 So, referring to the wording of the Ahuna.
• Enabling us to receive the blessings which they bestow through the influence of the sun. "The sun-shaped matter' would give us a materialism. The Pahlavi has 'levînð min zak khurkhshedo brîně (?) kerpo tanû î khůrkhshêd pavan barâ ayâpakîh î ameshospendânð yehabûnd.'
I hold that Ahura speaks no further here. & See Y. XLV, 1. ? Of course fictitious, as 2. had long been among the dead. 8 Does bavaintika mean past?' • Through the state of action; skyaothananām angheus Mazdâi. 10 Can mruyê(-vê) be a third singular like ghnê, ise ?
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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 |