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VASTS AND SÎRÔZAHS.
We worship their Fravashis 1. 75. We worship the Fravashis. We worship them, the liberal;
We worship them, the valiant; we worship them, the most valiant;
We worship them, the beneficent; we worship them, the most beneficent;
We worship them, the powerful ; We worship them, the most strong ;
We worship them, the light; we worship them, the most light; · We worship them, the effective; we worship them, the most effective.
76. They are the most effective amongst the creatures of the two Spirits, they the good, strong, beneficent Fravashis of the faithful, who stood holding fast when the two Spirits created the world, the Good Spirit and the Evil One 2.
77. When Angra Mainyu broke into the creation of the good holiness, then came in across Vohu Manô and Atar 3
78. They destroyed the malice of the fiend Angra Mainyu, so that the waters did not stop flowing nor did the plants stop growing; but at once the most beneficent waters of the creator and
1 There seems to be in this paragraph a distinction of five faculties of the soul, âsna, mana, daêna, urvan, fravashi. The usual classification, as given in this Yast, § 149, and in later Parsism (Spiegel, Die traditionelle Literatur der Parsen, p. 172), is: ahu, spirit of life (?); daêna, conscience; baodhô, perception ; urvan, the soul; fravashi.
? The Fravashis, 'on war horses and spear in hand, were around the sky.... and no passage was found by the evil spirit, who rushed back' (Bund. VI, 3-4; tr. West).
8 Cf. Ormazd et Ahriman, $ 107.
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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 |