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MISCELLANEOUS FRAGMENTS.
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disappear. Let the dead arise (unhindered by these foes), and let bodily life be sustained in these now lifeless bodies.
V.
1. To Ahura Mazda, the radiant, the glorious, to the Bountiful Immortals, to Force well-shaped and stately, to the Blow of Victory, Ahura-given, to the Victorious Ascendency (which it secures), to the path of pleasantness, to the good Zarenumant1, to the 'Glowing' Mountain made by Mazda, and to all the Yazads! 2. We sacrifice to Ahura Mazda, the radiant, the glorious, and to the Bountiful Immortals who rule aright, who dispose (of all) aright, and to Force well-shaped and stately, and to the Blow of Victory, and to the Ascendency of Victory, and to the path of pleasantness, and to Zarenumant, the good, which Mazda created, and to the 'Glowing' Mount, and to every saint.
VI.
Propitiation be to the created body of the Kine of blessed endowment, and to the Kine's soul (so, if there is one cow presented 3). Propitiation be to the body and soul of you two (so, if there are two 3). -To your body and soul (if there are three, or the entire herd). (The Ahuna follows.)
1 According to the Bundahis, the name of a lake.
⚫ This fragment was spoken when the milk was drawn from the cow, or cows, for the offering, and when the water was received with which the udder of the cow was to be washed. (Sp. transl. vol. iii, p. 254.)
These words are in Persian introduced as rubric.
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| SR No. | 007673 |
| Book Title | Zend Avesta Part 03 |
| 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 |