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MIHIR YAST.
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aloud , when the nostrils of the horses quiver, when the poniards ....?, when the strings of the bows whistle and shoot sharp arrows; then the brood of those whose libations are hated fall smitten to the ground, with their hair torn off.
114. 'So mayest thou, O Mithra, lord of wide pastures! give swiftness to our teams, strength to our own bodies, and that we may watch with full success those who hate us, smite down our foes, and destroy at one stroke our adversaries, our enemies, and those who hate us 3.
For his, brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth being heard ....
XXIX. 115. "We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake.
O Mithra, lord of wide pastures ! thou master of the house, of the borough, of the town, of the country, thou Zarathustrôtema 4!
116. 'Mithra is twentyfoldó between two friends or two relations;
* Mithra is thirtyfold between two men of the same group ®;
'Mithra is fortyfold between two partners ?;
1 When it clashes with another.
Kahvãn. • See Yt. V, 53 ; X, 11, 94.
* The chief of the sacerdotal order, the so-called Maubedânmaused.
o Or the contract is twentyfold ....,' that is, twenty times more strictly binding than between any two strangers. This passage is one of the most important of the Avesta, as a short account of the social constitution and morals of Zoroastrian Iran.
o Of the same gild (svapankti, ap. Neriosengh). ? Hadha-gaetha, co-proprietors of a gaeth a (a rural estate).
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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 |