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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VISPARAD VI, VII.
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Mazda! and as a Mazdayasnian of the order of Zarathustra, and in accordance with his Faith.
VISPARAD VI (Sp. VII)? In accordance with the precept, with praise, and with the joyful reception of grace, with Zaothras intelligently offered, with sacrificial words correctly spoken, I call the good Amesha Spenta by their names of beauty; yea, I worship the Bountiful Immortals by their beautiful names, with the blessing of the ritual Order, with the longing blessing of Righteousness the good.
VISPARAD VII (Sp. VIII) 2. 1. We worship the (sacrificial) words correctly uttered, and Sraosha (Obedience) the blessed, and the good Ashi, (the blest order of our rites), and Nairya-sangha. And we worship the victorious Peace as the unprostrated and unmoved. And we sacrifice to the Fravashis of the saints, and to the Kinvat Bridge, and to the Garô Nmâna of Ahura, even Heaven, the best world of the saints, the shining and all glorious !
2. And we sacrifice to that better path 8 that leads to that Best World (as well). And we worship Arstât (Justice) the good, which helps the settlements to advance and flourish, benefiting them thereby, that Arstât which is the Mazdayasnian Faith ; and (with her) we worship Rashnu the most just, and
* Nearly identical with Yasna XV.
. This chapter should be read after Yasna XVII, which it appropriately follows in the Vendîdad Sådah.
s Possibly the best (better) course of that best world.'
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