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FARVARDİN YAST.
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the law, for the unconquerable power of the law; for the extermination of the enemies at one stroke;
134. And for the vigour of health, for the Glory made by Mazda, for the health of the body, and for
a good, virtuous offspring, wise, chief in assemblies, bright, and clear-eyed, that frees [their father] from the pangs [of hell], of good intellect; and for that part in the blessed world that falls to wisdom and to those who do not follow impiety;
135. For a dominion full of splendour, for a long, long life, and for all boons and remedies; to withstand the Yâtus and Pairikas, the oppressors, the blind, and the deaf; to withstand the evil done by oppressors?
136. We worship the Fravashi of the holy Keresâspa ?, the Sâma 3, the club-bearer with plaited hair; to withstand the dreadful arm and the hordes with the wide battle array, with the many spears, with the straight spears, with the spears uplifted, bearing the spears of havoc; to withstand the dreadful brigand who works destruction, the man-slayer who has no mercy; to withstand the evil done by the brigand.
137. We worship the Fravashi of the holy Âkhrůra", the son of Husravah;
To withstand the wicked one that deceives his friend and the niggard that causes the destruction of the world.
* Like Frangrasyan; cf. p. 64, note 1. : See Yt. V, 37; XV, 27; XIX, 38. 3 Belonging to the Sâma family (Yasna IX, 10). * Like the nine highwaymen killed by Keresâspa, Yt. XIX, 41.
Not mentioned in the Shah Nâmah; Khosrav was succeeded by a distant relation, Lôhrasp.
An allusion to the lost legend of Akhrûra ; see, however, West, Pahlavi Texts, II, 375.
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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 |