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108
YASTS AND SÎRÔZAHS.
54. "Then all day long, all night long, that Pairika Duzyâirya would wage war against this material world of mine, wanting to extinguish its life!, and she goes on, rushing upon and around it.
55. But the bright and glorious Tistrya keeps that Pairika in bonds, with twofold bonds, with threefold bonds, that cannot be overcome, with bonds all over the body: it is as if there were a thousand men keeping one man in bonds, a thousand men of those who are the strongest in strength.
56. "If the Aryan countries, O Spitama Zarathustra! would perform in honour of the bright and glorious Tistrya the due sacrifice and invocation, just as that sacrifice and invocation ought to be performed in the perfection of holiness; never should a hostile horde enter these Aryan countries, nor any plague, nor leprosy, nor venomous plants ?, nor the chariot of a foe, nor the uplifted spear of a foe.'
573. Zarathustra asked: What is then, O Ahura Mazdal the sacrifice and invocation in honour of the bright and glorious Tistrya, as it ought to be performed in the perfection of holiness ?'
58. Ahura Mazda answered: 'Let the Aryan nations bring libations unto him; let the Aryan nations tie bundles of baresma for him; let the Aryan nations cook for him a head of cattle, either white, or black, or of any other colour, but all of one and the same colour.
1 Reading aval-derenām); cf. Vend. XVIII, 18 [45]. · Kapasti is properly the colocynthis or bitter-apple:
Occidet et serpens, et fallax herba veneni Occidet.'
(Ecl. IV, 24, 25.) $ $$ 57-61=Yt. XIV, 49-53; cf. Yt. V, 89 seq.
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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 |