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away in fear; the long-handed Bashyāsta flees away in fear; all the Daêvas unseen and the Varenya fiends flee away in fear.
135. 'Oh! may we never fall across the rush of Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, when in anger! May Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, never smite us in his anger; he who stands up upon this earth as the strongest of all gods, the most valiant of all gods, the most energetic of all gods, the swiftest of all gods, the most fiend-smiting of all gods, he, Mithra, the lord of wide pastures?.
For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth being heard ....
XXXII. 136. We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake;
'For whom white stallions, yoked to his chariot, draw it, on one golden wheel, with a full shining axle.
137. 'If Mithra takes his libations to his own dwelling?, “Happy that man, I think,”—said Ahura Mazda, —"O holy Zarathustra! for whom a holy priest, as pious as any in the world 3, who is the Word incarnate, offers up a sacrifice unto Mithra with bundles of baresma and with the [proper] words.
"" Straight to that man, I think, will Mithra come, to visit his dwelling,
138. ““When Mithra's boons will come to him, as he follows God's teaching, and thinks according to God's teaching.
“"Woe to that man, I think,”—said Ahura Mazda, -
* $$ 134-135=s& 97-98.
· Cf. Yt. X, 32. * Doubtful. Possibly, of a pious conscience.'
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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 |