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YASTS AND STRÔZAHS.
Usa?; upon his wings runs the male horse 2, runs the burden-bearing camel, runs the water of the river.
40. 'Him rode the gallant Thraêtaona, who smote Azi Dahâka, the three-mouthed, the three-headed, the six-eyed, who had a thousand senses; that most powerful, fiendish Drug, that demon, baleful to the world, the strongest Drug that Angra Mainyu created against the material world, to destroy the world of the good principles.
For his brightness and glory, I will offer unto him a sacrifice worth being heard ....
XV. 41. 'We sacrifice to Verethraghna, made by Ahura.
Verethraghna confounds the glory of this house with its wealth in cattle. He is like that great bird, the Saệna 4; he is like the big clouds, full of water, that beat the mountains.
For his brightness and glory, I will offer unto him a sacrifice worth being heard ....
XVI. 42. “We sacrifice to Verethraghna, made by Ahura.'
Zarathustra asked Ahura Mazda : “Ahura Mazda, most beneficent Spirit, Maker of the material world, thou Holy One!
Where is it that we must invoke the name of Verethraghna, made by Ahura ? Where is it that
* Kai Kaus; when he tried to ascend to heaven on a throne carried by eagles (Journal Asiatique, 1881, I, 513).
? A metaphor to express the swiftness of the wind, of the camel, and of the rivers.
8 Cf. Yt. V, 34. * The Sîmurgh; cf. p. 241, note 2.
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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 |