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beautiful, immortal life!, should it be one night, or two nights, or fifty, or a hundred nights.”
12. "We sacrifice unto Tistrya ;
We sacrifice unto the rains of Tistrya •We sacrifice unto the first star 3; we sacrifice unto the rains of the first star.
‘I will sacrifice unto the stars Haptôiringa“, to oppose the Yâtus and Pairikas.
We sacrifice unto Vanants, the star made by Mazda; for the well-shapen strength, for the Victory, made by Ahura, for the crushing Ascendant, for the destruction of what distresses us, for the destruction of what persecutes us.
"We sacrifice unto Tistrya, whose eye-sight is sound?
13. 'For ten nights, O Spitama Zarathustra! Tistrya, the bright and glorious star, mingles his shape
1 Cf. $§ 23–24 and Yt. X, 54-55, 74.
2 As Tistrya is the producer of the rain: Tistryênyaska=Tistaratârakasya vrishfim (Khorshêd Nyâyis 8, Sansk. tr.).
3 Tistrya ; cf. p. 105, note 3.
* Haptôiringa (Ursa Major) is the leader of the stars in the north (Bund. II, 7). It is entrusted with the gate and passage of hell, to keep back those of the nine, and ninety, and nine hundred, and nine thousand and nine myriad demons, and demonesses, and fairies (Pairikas) and sorcerers (Yâtus) who are in opposition to the celestial sphere and constellations' (Minokhired XLIX, 15; tr. by West).
5 Vanant is the leader of the stars in the south (read west; Bund. II, 7). Cf. Yt. XX.
6 To obtain .... This invocation is brought about by the very name of Vanant, which means 'who smites, who overcomes.' The peculiar office of Vanant is to keep the passes and gates of Mount Albórz, around which the sun, the moon, and the stars revolve, and to prevent the Paris and Daêvas from cutting off and breaking the road of the sun (Minokhired XLIX
?"I sacrifice to Tistar for (=to obtain) the soundness of the sight' (Khorshed Nyâyis 8, Pahl. tr.).
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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 |