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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splendour of sanctity, and may he be here with energetic effort (to aid us in our worship).
2. We offer the wise offerings of the Ahuna-vairya intoned with sanctity and yet to be intoned, possessing their many teachings of religious wisdom (as they do), and those of the two mortars which pour the Haomas out, and which are pushed forward with precision 3, and are now in the course of being thus advanced once more? 3. (And so we teach as well the many teachings of the religious wisdom) contained in the words correctly spoken, in the Zarathustrian utterances“, and in the ceremonies correctly practised, and the Baresmans spread exactly, and the Haomas pressed correctly, and the praise, Yasnas, and the doctrines of the Mazdayasnian Religion with their recitations, and their movements. 4. For thus they may become to us more full of devices and of wisdom, and so we offer these wise ritual deeds in the creation, so we impart them with their many points of meaning while we (ourselves) still ponder them as those which Ahura Mazda, the holy One, delivered, which have (as if) their nourishment from Vohu Manah 6 and their growth from the Righteous Order, which are the greatest of all beings, the best, and the most beautiful; for thus shall these be to us the more full of wisest meaning, and more full of incitation o, and may we be among those (who are) of Spenta Mainyu's world in that we are imparting (to the chosen) these
1 Recall hekâ of Y. XLVI, 1. * With punctilious sanctity.
The Parsi priests at present make appropriate manipulations here. * In the now ancient Gâthas, &c. 5 Compare gaethau vîspau yau vohở thraostâ mananghå.
. Or, 'may we be more zealous than any. who are in the creation of the bounteous spirit.'
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