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 XIII.
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precepts of the wisest meaning and these incitations which are contained therein. 5. And full of wisest meaning be ye two to us, O (thou) stone mortar, and (thou) the iron one, as ye are now turned, and as ye are now being advanced', ye two mortars of the house, (and of the village, of the tribe, and of the province, and ye who are in this house (itself), this village, tribe, and province]; yea, in those which are ours, Mazdayasnians, who are steadfast in our worship, who appear with our wood-billets and our perfumes, and with our supplicated blessings [(Pazand) for so may they be to us, the more full of wisest teaching]
VISPARAD XIII (SP. XV) 2. 1. According to the ritual we worship Ahura Mazda; according to the ritual we worship the Bountiful Immortals; and we sacrifice to the sacrificial word correctly spoken, and to every Mãthra (as to a sacred word of reason). And we sacrifice to Zarathustra, him who is especially the possessor of the Mãthra 3; and we sacrifice to the blessings for the saints'4; and we worship the 'hail's addressed to the Bountiful Immortals.
2. Also we worship the three principal (chapters) uttered (in the Yasna) without addition or omissione ;
1 Referring to manipulations.
* This fragment follows Y. XXX in the Vendidad Sådah, and was written in allusion to Y. XXVIII, Y. XXIX, and Y. XXX.
* Referring to mathra srevaêmâ in Yasna XXVIII, 8. • Referring to the words savakâ ashavabyô in Yasna XXX, 11. * Referring to the word usta in Yasna XXX, 11.
• The three first chapters XXVIII-XXX; the text has bad grammar, or broken connection.
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