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53. Plagues will ever pour upon the Aryan nations; hostile hordes will ever fall upon the Aryan nations; the Aryans will be smitten by their fifties and their hundreds, by their hundreds and their thousands, by their thousands and their tens of thousands, by their tens of thousands and their myriads of myriads.'
54. There Verethraghna, made by Ahura, proclaimed thus: “The Soul of the Bull”, the wise creature, does not receive from man due sacrifice and prayer; for now the Daêvas and the worshippers of the Daêvas make blood flow and spill it like water;
55. 'For now the . . . . . Daêvas and the worshippers of the Daêvas bring to the fire the plant that is called Haperesi, the wood that is called Nemetka3 ;
56. (Therefore) when the ....? Daêvas and the worshippers of the Daêvas bow their backs, bend their waists, and arrange all their limbs, they think they will smite and smite not, they think they will kill and kill not; and then the ....2 Daêvas and the worshippers of the Daêvas have their minds confounded and their eyes made giddy.'
For his brightness and glory, I will offer unto him a sacrifice worth being heard ....
i Gôsûrûn or Drvâspa; see Yt. IX. The destruction of any living being is an injury to Drvâspa.
2 ? Vy âmbura.
3 The Haperesi and the Nemetka are probably some species of green wood; it is forbidden to put green wood in the fire as it kills it, and injures the Genius of Water at the same time.
* In order to strike.
6 The general meaning of the last four clauses is that the impious are defeated.
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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 |