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YASTS AND SÎRÔZAHS.
man drink of these libations who does not know the staota yêsnyal: Vispê ratavô %.
For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth being heard ....
XXXI.
123. We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake;
To whom Ahura Mazda offered up a sacrifice in the shining Garô-nmana .
124. With his arms lifted up towards Immortality 4, Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, drives forward from the shining Garô-nmâna, in a beautiful chariot that drives on, ever-swift, adorned with all sorts of ornaments, and made of gold.
125. Four stallions draw that chariot, all of the same white colour, living on heavenly food and undying. The hoofs of their fore-feet are shod with gold, the hoofs of their hind-feet are shod with silver; all are yoked to the same pole, and wear the yoke and the cross-beams of the yoke 6, fastened with hooks of Khshathra vairya’ to a beautiful ....8
126. 'At his right hand drives Rashnu-Razista", the most beneficent and most well-shapen.
1 The sutâd yêst; the last chapters of the Yasna, from LVIII [LVII) to end, according to Anquetil (Zend-Avesta. I, 2, 232).
The first words of the Vispêrad. Paradise.
Towards the abode of the Immortals. o Fed with ambrosia (außpóolov ciðap) like Poseidon's steeds (II. XIII, 35; cf. Ovid, Metam. IV, 214).
• Doubtful (simãmka simõithrãmka). ? Metal. See Vend. Introd. IV, 33. 8 Upairispâta.
See Yt. XII.
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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 |