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FARVARDÍN YAST.
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heavenly substance , firmly established, with ends that lie afar, shining in its body of ruby over the three-thirds (of the earth)?; it is like a garment inlaid with stars, made of a heavenly substance, that Mazda puts on, along with Mithra and Rashnu and Spenta-Årmaiti, and on no side can the eye perceive the end of it.
4. “Through their brightness and glory, O Zarathustra ! I maintain Ardvi Sûra Anâhita, the wideexpanding and health-giving, who hates the Daêvas and obeys the laws of Ahura, who is worthy of sacrifice in the material world, worthy of prayer in the material world; the life-increasing and holy, the flocks-increasing and holy, the fold-increasing and holy, the wealth-increasing and holy, the countryincreasing and holy 3;
54. Who makes the seed of all males pure, who makes the womb of all females pure for bringing forth, who makes all females bring forth in safety, who puts milk in the breasts of all females in the right measure and the right quality;
6. 'The large river, known afar, that is as large as the whole of all the waters that run along the earth; that runs powerfully from the height Hukairya down to the sea Vouru-Kasha.
1.7. All the shores of the sea Vouru-Kasha are boiling over, all the middle of it is boiling over,
* Reading mainyu-tâ stô; cf. Yt. X, 90, 143, and in this very paragraph vanghanem mainyu-tâstem.
? A division of the earth different from and older than the division into seven Karshvares; cf. Yasna XI, 2 [21]; this division was derived by analogy from the tripartite division of the universe (earth, atmosphere, and heaven). 8 Yt. V, 1.
* $$ 5-8=Yt. V, 2–5.
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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 |