Saddharma Pundarika

SR No.: 007677
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

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RASHN YAST.
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X. 17. "Whether thou, O holy Rashnu! art on the tree of the eagle ", that stands in the middle of the sea Vouru-Kasha, that is called the tree of good remedies, the tree of powerful remedies, the tree of all remedies, and on which rest the seeds of all plants; we invoke, we bless Rashnu, the strong. I invoke his friendship towards this var prepared ....
XI. 18. Whether thou, O holy Rashnu ! art on the Aodhas 2 of the Rangha, we invoke, we bless Rashnu, the strong. I invoke his friendship towards this var prepared ....
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19. Whether thou, O holy Rashnu! art on the Sanakas of the Rangha, we invoke, we bless Rashnu, the strong. I invoke his friendship towards this var prepared ....
1 The Saệna, in later mythology the Sinamrû or Sîmôrgh; his 'resting-place is on the tree which is Jad-bêsh (opposed to harm) of all seeds; and always when he rises aloft, a thousand twigs will shoot forth from that tree; and when he alights, he will break off the thousand twigs, and he sheds their seed therefrom. And the bird Chañmrôsh for ever sits in that vicinity; and his work is this, that he collects that seed which sheds from the tree of all seeds, which is Jad-bêsh, and conveys it there where Tishtar seizes the water, so that Tishtar may seize the water with that seed of all kinds, and may rain it on the world with the rain' (Minokhirad LXII, 37; tr. West).
2 By the floods (? Vend. I, 26); it has probably a geographical meaning; cf. the following paragraph ; perhaps the marshy country at the mouth of the Tigris.
8 Cf. Yt. X, 104; aodhas and sanaka may refer to the southern and northern basin of the Tigris.
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