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YASTS AND SîRÔZAHS.
8. “To whom the chiefs of nations offer up sacrifices, as they go to the field, against havocking hosts, against enemies coming in battle array, in the strife of conflicting nations.
9. On whichever side he has been worshipped first in the fulness of faith of a devoted heart, to that side turns Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, with the fiend-smiting wind, with the cursing thought of the wise .
For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth being heard ....
III. 10. We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake.
11. Whom the horsemen worship on the back of their horses, begging swiftness for their teams, health for their own bodies, and that they may watch with full success those who hate them, smite down their foes, and destroy at one stroke their adversaries, their enemies, and those who hate them?
*For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth being heard ...
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12. "We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake ;
13. Who first of the heavenly gods reaches over the Haras, before the undying, swift-horsed sun*;
· See p. 12, note 13.
2 Cf. Yt. V, 53; X, 94. 9 Mount Albôrz, whence the sun rises; see $ 50.
- Mithra is closely connected with the sun, but not yet identical with it, as he became in later times Gre, the sun; Deo invicto Soli Mithrae).
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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 |