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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BAHRÂM YAST.
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fountains of manliness?, the strength of the arms, the health of the whole body, the sturdiness of the whole body, and the eye-sight of the Kara fish ?, that lives beneath the waters and can measures a rippling of the water, not thicker than a hair, in the Rangha whose ends lie afar, whose depth is a thousand times the height of a man 4.
For his brightness and glory, I will offer unto him a sacrifice worth being heard ....
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30. We sacrifice unto Verethraghna, made by Ahura, who makes virility, who makes death, who makes resurrection, who possesses peace, who has a free way.
Unto him did the holy Zarathustra offer up a sacrifice, [asking] for victorious thinking, victorious speaking, victorious doing, victorious addressing, and victorious answering.
31. Verethraghna, made by Ahura, gave him the fountains of manliness, the strength of the arms, the health of the whole body, the sturdiness of the whole body, and the eye-sight of the male horse, that, in the dark of the night, in its first half 5 and through the rain, can perceive a horse's hair lying on the ground and knows whether it is from the head or from the tail 6.
1 Erezi, Pahl. gond (Old Zand-Pahlavi Dictionary, p. 11). ? See Vendîdâd XIX, 42.
3 Possibly, perceive. * Cf. Yt. XVI, 7, and Bundahis XVIII, 6 : 'those fish .... know the scratch of a needle's point (or better hole) by which the water shall increase, or by which it is diminishing '(tr. West).
6 Avakhshaityau, the night before hu-vakhsha (before the time when the light begins to grow; midnight).
6 Cf. Yt. XVI, 10, and Bundahis XIX, 32 : 'Regarding the Arab
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