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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19. 'Here he calls for people to assemble, here he asks, saying : “Who now will offer me the libations with the Haoma and the holy meat ? To whom shall I give wealth of horses, a troop of horses, and the purification of his own soul? Now I ought to receive sacrifice and prayer in the material world, by the law of excellent holiness."
20. “Then, O Spitama Zarathustra ! the bright and glorious Tistrya goes down to the sea VouruKasha in the shape of a white, beautiful horse, with golden ears and a golden caparison.
21. But there rushes down to meet him the Daêva Apaosha, in the shape of a dark horse, black with black ears, black with a black back, black with a black tail, stamped with brands of terror.
22. 'They meet together, hoof against hoof, O Spitama Zarathustra! the bright and glorious Tistrya and the Daêva Apaosha. They fight together, O Spitama Zarathustra! for three days and three nights. And then the Daêva Apaosha proves stronger than the bright and glorious Tistrya, he overcomes him.
23. “And Tistrya flees from the sea Vouru-Kasha, as far as a Hâthra's ? length. He cries out in woe and distress, the bright and glorious Tistrya : “Woe is me, О Ahura Mazda! I am in distress, O Waters and Plants ! O Fate and thou, Law of the worshippers of Mazda! Men do not worship me with a
1 Tistar was converted into three forms, the form of a man and the form of a horse and the form of a bull .... as the astrologers say that every constellation has three forms' (Bund. VII, 4; tr. West). Tistrya promises his worshippers children (§ 15), oxen ($ 17), or horses ( 19), according as he appears in the form of a man (§ 13), of a bull ($ 16), or of a horse ($ 18). ? A mile (Bundahis XXVI, 1; tr. West, note 1).
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