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YASTS AND SÎRÔZAHS.
and there asking, along with Mithra and Rashnu : • Who is it who lies unto Mithra ? Who is it who thrusts [his oath] against Rashnu?? To whom shall I, in my might, impart illness and death??'
488. Ahura Mazda said: 'If men sacrifice unto Verethraghna, made by Ahura, if the due sacrifice and prayer is offered unto him just as it ought to be performed in the perfection of holiness, never will a hostile horde enter the Aryan countries, nor any plague, nor leprosy, nor venomous plants, nor the chariot of a foe, nor the uplifted spear of a foe.
494. Zarathustra asked: "What is then, O Ahura Mazda! the sacrifice and invocation in honour of Verethraghna, made by Ahura, as it ought to be performed in the perfection of holiness?'
50. Ahura Mazda answered: ‘Let the Aryan nations bring libations unto him; let the Aryan nations tie bundles of baresma for him; let the Aryan nations cook for him a head of cattle, either white, or black, or of any other colour, but all of one and the same colour.
51. 'Let not a murderer take of those offerings, nor a whore, nor a ...., who does not sing the Gâthâs, who spreads death in the world and withstands the law of Mazda, the law of Zarathustra.
52. 'If a murderer take of those offerings, or a whore, or a ...., who does not sing the Gâthâs, then Verethraghna, made by Ahura, takes back his healing virtues.
Against truth. • § 48 ; cf. Yt. VIII, 56.
9 Cf. Yt. X, 108 seq.
$$ 49-53=Yt. VIII, 57-61.
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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 |