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BAHRÂM YAST.
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'If I have a curse thrown upon me, a spell told upon me by the many men who hate me, what is the remedy for it?'
35. Ahura Mazda answered : 'Take thou a feather of that bird with .... feathers, the Varengana, O Spitama Zarathustra ! With that feather thou shalt rub thy own body?, with that feather thou shalt curse back thy enemies.
36. 'If a man holds a bone of that strong bird, or a feather of that strong bird, no one can smite or turn to flight that fortunate man. The feather of that bird of birds brings him help; it brings unto him the homage of men, it maintains in him his glory.
37. “Then the sovereign, the lord of countries, will no longer kill hiss hundreds, though he is a killer of men; the ....4 will not kill at one stroke ; he alone smites and goes forwards.
38. 'All tremble before him who holds the feather, they tremble therefore before me; all my enemies tremble before me and fear my strength and victorious force and the fierceness established in my body.
39. 'He carries the chariot of the lords; he carries the chariots of the lordly ones, the chariots of the sovereigns. He carried the chariot of Kavi
* Peshô-parena. The Vârengana is the same bird as the Vâraghna, the raven.
3 The feather of the Vârengana plays here the same part as the Sîmurgh's feather in the Shâh Nâmah. When Rûdâbah's flank was opened to bring forth Rustem, her wound was healed by rubbing it with a Sîmurgh's feather; Rustem, wounded to death by Isfendyâr, was cured in the same manner.
s Of him who holds that feather. 4? Vaêsaêpa.
6 That bird.
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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 |