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Drug, and is most strong and world-destroying ; who maintains and looks over all this moving world;
11. Who, never sleeping, wakefully guards the creation of Mazda ; who, never sleeping, wakefully maintains the creation of Mazda; who protects all the material world with his club uplifted, from the hour when the sun is down;
12. Who never more did enjoy sleep from the time when the two Spirits made the world, namely, the good Spirit and the evil One; who every day, every night, fights with the Mâzainya Daêvas.
13. He bows not for fear and fright before the Daêvas : before him all the Daêvas bow for fear and fright reluctantly, and rush away to darkness 2.
For his brightness and glory, for his strength and victorious power ....3
III. 14. Yatha ahû vairyô: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness....
We sacrifice unto the holy, tall-formed, fiend-smiting Sraosha, who makes the world increase, the holy and master of holiness;
Who with peace and friendship - watches the Drug and the most beneficent Spirit: so that the Amesha-Spentas may go along the seven Karshvares of the earth 5; who is the teacher of the
1 Cf. above, p. 145, note I.
? To hell. 8 As above, &$ 8-9.
To the creation of Ormazd. s Doubtful. The Yasna has: Through whose strength, victorious power, wisdom, and knowledge the Amesha-Spentas go (avãn; Phl. sâtûnand) along the seven Karshvares of the earth' (LVII, 23 [LVI, 10, 2]).
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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 |