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YASTS AND SÎRÔZahs.
4. “Then I, Ahura Mazda, shall come for help unto thee, towards this var prepared, towards the fire and the baresma, towards the full boiling [milk], towards the var of oil and the sap of the plants;
'Along with the fiend-smiting Wind, along with the cursing thought of the wise !, along with the kingly Glory, along with Saoka?, made by Mazda.
5. 'We invoke, we bless Rashnu, the strong; I invoke his friendship towards this var 3 prepared, towards the fire and the baresma, towards the full boiling (milk], towards the var of oil and the sap of the plants.
6. “Then Rashnu the tall, the strong, will come for help unto thee, towards this var prepared, towards the fire and the baresma, towards the full boiling [Milk], towards the var of oil and the sap of the plants:
Along with the fiend-smiting Wind, along with the cursing thought of the wise, along with the kingly Glory, along with Saoka, made by Mazda.
7. O thou, holy Rashnu ! O most true Rashnu! most beneficent Rashnu! most knowing Rashnu ! most discerning Rashnu ! most fore-knowing Rashnu! most far-seeing Rashnu! Rashnu, the
1 See p. 12, note 13.
? See Vend. XXII, 3. 3 Varô; this seems to be the Var nîrang or ordeal which is alluded to in several passages of the Avesta; cf. Afrîgân I, 9; Yasna XXXI, 3 b (see Pahl. Comm.; cf. Comm. ad XXXIV, 4 a); cf. Vend. IV, 46, 55. According to the Dinkart, there were thirtythree kinds of var ordeals (Haug, Ardâ Virâf, p. 145); the most common was to pour melted copper upon the breast of the man whose truth was to be tested: if he went off uninjured, he was considered to have spoken the truth. Cf. Vend. Introd. III, 9.
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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 |