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 LXV.
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efficacious against the Daêvas, devoted to Ahura's lore, and to be worshipped with sacrifice within the corporeal world, furthering all living things'(?) and holy, helping on the increase and improvement of our herds and settlements, holy, and increasing our wealth, holy, and helping on the progress of the Province, holy (as she is)? 2. (Ardvi Sûra Anâhita) who purifies the seed of all male beings, who sanctifies the wombs of all women to the birth, who makes all women fortunate in labour, who brings all women a regular and timely flow of milk, (3) (Ardvi Sûra Anahita) with a volume sounding from afar 2, which is alone equal in its bulk to all the waters which flow forth upon earth, which flows down with mighty volume from high Hukairya to the sea Vouru-kasha. 4. And all the gulfs 3 in Vouru-kasha are stirred (when it falls down), all the middle doth well up when Ardvi Sûra Anâhita rushes in, when she plunges foaming into them, she, whose are a thousand tributaries, and a thousand outlets, and each as it flows in, or rushes out, is a forty days' ride in length to a rider mounted well.
5. And the (chief) outlet to this one water (Ardvi Sara Anâhita) goes apart, dividing to all the seven Karshvars. And this outlet to my river, Ardvi Sara Anahita, bears off its water's always in summer and in winter. This my river purifies the seed of men, and wombs of women, and women's milk 4.
6. Let the saints' Fravashis now draw near, those of the saints who live, or have lived, of those born, or yet to be born ; yea, let them come near which
1 The Pahlavi has gân, or gûy, in which latter case the meaning springs' would be better. 3 Or, 'famed from afar.'
9 Lit. sides.' See Darmesteter's Abân Yast, I-V.
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