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 LXXI.
ruling in the ritual order; yea, we sacrifice to you, (O ye Gåthas !) for protection and shielding, for guarding and watching. Mine may ye be as a preparation. For me, for (mine) own soul I call on (you) , and we would worship (you) for protection and for shielding, for guarding and for watching. 12. And we sacrifice to Weal, the complete welfare, holy and ruling in its course in the ritual order; and we sacrifice to Deathlessness (the immortal being of the good), holy, and ruling in the ritual order. And we sacrifice to the question of the Lord, and to His lore, the holy chiefs, and to the heroic Haptanghâiti, the holy lord of the ritual order. 13. (Frasha.) Let the holy Zarathustra himself seek out a friend and a protector. And I say? to thee (O Zarathustra !) to make to thee a friend holy beyond the holy, and truer than the true, for that is the better thing; for he is evil who is the best to the evil, and he is holy to whom the holy is a friend 3, (14) for these are the best of words, those which Ahura Mazda spoke to Zarathustra.
And * do thou, O Zarathustra! pronounce these words at the last ending of (thy) life. 15. For if, O Zarathustra ! thou shalt pronounce these words at the last ending of (thy) life I, Ahura Mazda, will keep your soul away from Hell. Yea, so far away shall I hold it as is the breadth and extension of the earth [(Pâzand) and the earth is as wide as it is long]
16. As thou dost desire, O holy (one)! so shalt thou be, holy shalt thou cause (thy) soul to pass over
i Or, ‘I would invoke (mine) own soul;' see verse 18.
• Possibly the rejoinder of Frashaostra, or these are the best words' referred to in verse 14; but the section is a dialogue. Y. XLVI, 6.
• Ahura speaks.
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