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GÔS YAST.
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VII.
28. We offer up a sacrifice unto the powerful Drvâspa, made by Mazda and holy, who keeps the flocks in health .....
Who yokes teams of horses .... for assistance to the faithful.
29" To her did the tall Kavi Vistâspa offer up a sacrifice behind the waters of the river Daitya, with a hundred male horses, a thousand oxen, ten thousand lambs, and with an offering of libations:
30. Grant me this boon, O good, most beneficent Drvâspa! that I may put to flight Asta-aurvant, the son of Vispa-thaurvô-asti, the all-afflicting, of the brazen helmet, of the brazen armour, of the thick neck, behind whom seven hundred camels....?; that I may put to flight the Hvyaona murderer, Aregataspas; that I may put to flight Darsinika 4, the worshipper of the Daêvas;
31. And that I may smite Tấthravants of the bad law; that I may smite Spingauruska“, the worshipper of the Daêvas; and that I may bring unto the good law the nations of the Varedhakas and of the Hvyaonase ; and that I may smite of the Hvyaona nations their fifties and their hundreds, their hundreds and their thousands, their thousands and their
* $$ 29-31=Yt. XVII, 49-51.
? ? Gainyâvarat. 8 See above, p. 79, note 4
4"Anak leyóuevos. * Mentioned Yt. V, 109 and XIX, 87.
6 The Huyaonas seem to have been the Chionitae, a bellicose tribe, near the land of Gilan, often at war with the first Sassanides (Amm. Marcellinus XVII, 5). The name of the Varedhakas reminds one of the Vertae who are mentioned once in company with the Chionitae (ibid. XIX, 1); but their geographical situation is not ascertained. In any case the proximity of the Dâitya ($ 29) shows that both people must have inhabited the western coast of the Caspian sea.
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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 |