Saddharma Pundarika

SR No.: 007677
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

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YASTS AND SÎRÔZAHS.
and the brood of Nivika, and the brood of Dâstayana;
Who killed the golden-crowned Hitâspa", and Vareshava, the son of Dâna ?, and Pitaona, attended by many Pairikas 8;
42. Who killed Arezô-shamana, him of the manly courage, who was strong, well-beloved", hail, energetically rushing, fully awake, never falling back....5;
43. Who killed Snâvidhaka, him who killed with his nails, the stone-handed : thus did he exclaim to all around: 'I am an infant still, I am not yet of age : if I ever grow of age, I shall make the earth a wheel, I shall make the heavens a chariot ;
44. 'I shall bring down the Good Spirit from the shining Garô-nmâna; I shall make the Evil Spirit rush up from the dreary Hell. They will carry my
walking, people considered in this way, that “below them are the stars and moon, and below them moves the sun at dawn, and the water of the sea reaches up to their knees." And I reached up to their legs, and they were smitten on the legs by me; they fell, and the hills on the earth were shattered by them' (West, Pahlavi Texts, II, 376). Keresâspa's Fravashi, accordingly, is invoked against thieves (Yt. XIII, 136). Perhaps the assimilation of the wolf Kapôd with Pehan is merely a guess of the author of the Minokhired.
1 The murderer of Keresâspa's brother, Urvâkhshaya (Yt. XV, 28).
• Doubtful: dânayana. Vâresha is the Pahlavi name of a bird of prey (Bund. XIV, 30), which might induce us to identify Vareshava with the gigantic bird Kamak, which overshadowed the earth and kept off the rain till the rivers dried up' (West, 1.1. 378), and whose destruction was one of the feats of Keresâspa.
* Like the Pairika Knãthaiti, who clave to Keresâspa (Vend. I, 10 (361)
• Doubtful: frâzustem.
6 The rest of the sentence is obscure, and the text seems to be corrupt.
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