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YASTS AND SÎRÔZAHS.
on a golden throne, under golden beams and a golden canopy, with bundles of baresma and offerings of full-boiling (milk].
20. He begged of him a boon, saying: 'Grant me this, O Vayu! who dost work highly, that I may make all the seven Karshvares of the earth empty of men?
21. In vain did he sacrifice, in vain did he beg, in vain did he invoke, in vain did he give gifts, in vain did he bring libations; Vayu did not grant him that boon.
For his brightness and glory, I will offer unto him a sacrifice worth being heard ....
VI. 22. I will sacrifice to the Waters and to Him who divides them ....
To this Vayu do we sacrifice, this Vayu do we invoke ....
23. Unto him did Thraêtaona, the heir of the valiant Athwya clan, offer up a sacrifice in the four-cornered Varena, on a golden throne, under golden beams and a golden canopy, with bundles of baresma and offerings of full-boiling [Milk].
24. He begged of him a boon, saying: 'Grant me this, O Vayu ! who dost work highly, that I may overcome Azi Dahâka, the three-mouthed, the three-headed, the six-eyed, who has a thousand senses, that most powerful, fiendish Drug, that
whether Kvirinta is the name of a place or the Zend form of Kuleng, a stork : in any case it was a palace in Bawri (Babylon). In the Shâh Nâmah it is called Disukht (duz-ukhta for duz-ita; see Études Iraniennes, II, 211).
1 Cf. Yt. V, 30 seq.
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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 |