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chariot, both the Good Spirit and the Evil One, unless the manly-hearted Keresâspa kill me.'
The manly-hearted Keresâspa killed him, his life went away, his spirit vanished.
For its brightness and glory, I will offer it a sacrifice ....
VIII. 45. We sacrifice unto the awful Glory, that cannot be forcibly seized', made by Mazda ....
46. For which the Good Spirit and the Evil One did struggle with one another 3: for that Glory that cannot be forcibly seized they flung each of them their darts most swift.
The Good Spirit flung a dart, and so did VohuManô, and Asha-Vahista and Âtar, the son of Ahura Mazda.
The Evil Spirit flung a dart, and so did AkemManô 4, and Aêshma of the wounding spear, and Azi Dahâka and Spityura, he who sawed Yima in twain 6.
Snâvidhaka reminds one vividly of the Titanic Otus and Ephialtes (Odyssea XI, 308):
"Such were they youths! Had they to manhood grown, Almighty Jove had trembled on his throne : But ere the harvest of the beard began To bristle on the chin, and promise man,
His shafts Apollo aim'd.' (Pope.) 3 The sacerdotal Glory; see p. 11, note 6, cf. & 53. * When it had departed from Yima.
• Bad Thought, the demoniac counterpart of Vohu-Manô (Vend. Introd. IV, 34).
Spityura was a brother of Vima's (Bund. XXXI, 3: 'Spîtûr was he who, with Dahâk, cut up Yim,' ibid. 5, tr. West). Nothing more is known of him, though he appears to have played a great part in the original Yima legend, and to have stood to his brother in the same relation as Barmâyūn and Katâyûn to Ferîdùn, or
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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 |