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YASTS AND SÎRÔZAHS.
XXVI. 111. 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathustra! unto this spring of mine, Ardvi Sûra Anâhita ....
112. Unto her did Zairi-vairi?, who fought on horseback, offer up a sacrifice behind the river Dâitya’, with a hundred male horses, a thousand oxen, ten thousand lambs.
113. 'He begged of her a boon, saying: “Grant me this, Ogood, most beneficent Ardvi Sura Anâhita ! that I may overcome Peshô-Kangha the corpse-burier 3, Humayaka 4 the worshipper of the Daêvas, and the wicked Aregat-aspa", in the battles of this world.
114. 'Ardvi Sûra Anâhita granted him that boono, as he was offering up libations, giving gifts, sacrificing, and entreating that she would grant him that boon.
For her brightness and glory, I will offer her a sacrifice ....
XXVII. 115. 'Offer up a sacrifice, 0 Spitama Zarathustral unto this spring of mine, Ardvi Sûra Anâhita ....
116. Unto her did Aregat-aspa and Vandaremaini?
? Zarîr in Firdausi, the brother of Vîstâspa ; cf. Yt. V, 117; XIII, 101.
* The Araxes (Vendidâd I, 3). : Doubtful (cf. Vend. III, 36 seq.).
• This is perhaps an epithet to Peshô-Kangha, 'the most malicious.
• See p. 79, note 4.
6 If we may trust the Shâh Nâmah, she did not grant her favour to the last, as Zarîr was killed by one of the generals of Argâsp, Bidirafsh.
? A brother of Argâsp's: his name is slightly altered in Firdausi
see زوندريمان for اندريمان ,Andariman miswritten for Vandariman)
Études Iraniennes, p. 228).
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| SR No. | 007677 |
| Book Title | Saddharma Pundarika |
| 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 |