Saddharma Pundarika

SR No.: 007677
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: H Kern
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1884
Total Pages: 2546
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 46 MB

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YASTS AND STRÔZAHS.
18. "He begged of her a boon, saying: “Grant me this, O good, most beneficent Ardvi Sûra Anâhita ! that I may bring the son of Pourushaspa, the holy Zarathustra, to think after my law, to speak after my law, to do after my law!"
19. ‘Ardvi Sûra Anâhita granted him that boon, as he was offering libations, giving gifts, sacrificing, and begging that she would grant him that boon.
For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice ....
VI.
20. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathustra I unto this spring of mine, Ardvi Sûra Anâhita ....
21. ‘To her did Haoshyangha, the Paradhâta?, offer up a sacrifice on the enclosure? of the Haras, with a hundred male horses, a thousand oxen, and ten thousand lambs.
22. 'He begged of her a boon, saying: “Grant me this, O good, most beneficent Ardvi Sûra Anâhita! that I may become the sovereign lord of all countries, of the Daêvas and men, of the
1 Haoshyangha was the first king of the Paradhâta (Pêshaayan) aynasty (cf. above, p. 7, note 2, and Bundahis XXXI, 1). It is related in Firdausi's Shâh Nâmah that he was the grandson of Gayomarth, the first man and king, and the son of Syâmak; that his father having been killed by the black Dîv, he encountered him at the head of an army of lions, tigers, birds, and Paris, and destroyed him; he then succeeded his grandfather, and reigned supreme over the seven Keshvars of the earth.
? Doubtful: upabda=upabanda, as thribda (Yt. VIII, 55)= thribanda; it appears from Yt. XV, 7 that the place meant here is the Taêra which is said in the Bundahis (V, 7) to be surrounded by the Albórz (the Hara).
The Hara berezaiti or Albôrz, in Mazandaran, south of the Caspian Sea, was supposed to surround the earth ; cf. Yt. X, 56.
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