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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THE GÂTHAS.
(all) as (His)glorious' (conceptions first)clothed themselves in the stars 2), He is through His understanding the Creators of the Righteous Order. And thus likewise He supports His Beneficent Mind (in His saints). And these (holy creatures) may’st Thou cause to prosper by Thy Spirit (since they are Thine own), O Ahura Mazda! Thou who art for every hour the same*!
8. Therefore, as the first did I conceive of Thee, O Ahura Mazda! as the one to be adored with the mind in the creation, as the Father of the Good Mind within us, when I beheld Thee? with my (enlightened) eyes as the veritable maker of our Righteousness, as the Lord of the actions of life!
9. Thine, O Ahura! was Piety; yea, Thine, O Creator of the Kine! was understanding and the
1 Mûnas avo rôshanîh gûmîkhtỏ khvârîh. Hvâthrâ and khvârih can hardly mean 'comfortable' here. Ease' is the later sense.
* Raokebis certainly means, with illuminating objects, stars or shining lights.
8 Hübschmann, der Schöpfer des Asha.'— Casuslehre, s. 190. * Pavan mînavadîkih vakhshînêd [ ] mûn kevanik ham khûdâî.
• Compare the frequent expression spentem at Thwa menhî,' in chap. XLIII.
Roth, vornehmsten.' ? When I seized Thee (took Thee in) with my eye. The Pahlavi: Amatam [] pavan hamkashmîh avó ham vakhdûnd hômanih.
8 Dên ahvâno pavan kûnisnõ khûdâî hômanih.
Ner. may be rendered as follows: Thus thou wert thought at the first by me, O Great Wise One, the Lord! when thou wert engaged in the production of Gvahmana [ ]. In which (production) they apprehend the father of the Best Mind when they observe him with a full-faced look [ ]. (And thou art the father) of that creation which is manifestly righteous; (that is, thou makest the purer creation good in conduct). Thou art a King in the world as to action; (that is, where it is fitting to confer a benefit, and also where it is fitting to inflict a punishment, in each of these thou art capable]
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