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 XXVII.
YASNA XXVII.
PRELUDE TO THE CHIEF RECITAL OF THE
AHUNA-VAIRYA. 1. This is to render? Him who is of all the greatest, our lord” and master (even) Ahura Mazda. And this to smite - the wicked Angra Mainyu, and to smite Aêshma of the bloody spear, and the Mazainya Daêvas, and to smite all the wicked Varenya Daêvas.
2. And this is to further Ahura Mazda, the resplendent, the glorious, to further the Bountiful Immortals, and the influences of the star Tistrya, the resplendent, the glorious, (and) to the furtherance of the holy man, and of all the (bountiful and holy creatures of the Bounteous Spirit.
3-55. 6. The Haomas are crushed, O Mazda, Khshathra, and Asha, O ye Lords! Good is Sraosha who accompanies the sacrifice with the great glory, and may he be present affording strenuous help.
7. We are offering saving acts of wisdom and of worship with the sacred gift of the Ahuna-vairya intoned with sanctity, and of the two mortars here
1 Dazdyâi would be an infin. for an imperative; but it here refers to the Ahuna. We might say, 'Let this render,' &c.
• See Y. XXXIV, 5.
* Referring to the Ahồ and Ratu of the Ahuna, but with erroneous application. • Comp. Vend. XIX, 9 (Wg.).
The Ahuna appears here in the MS. with Y. XXXIV, 5, the & airyema, and the Ashem Voh0.
• Mãzâ rayâ; otherwise mãzarayâ, with greatness (see Y. XLIII,
12).
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