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world, which will (thenceforth) never grow old and never die, never decaying and never rotting, ever living and ever increasing, and master of its wish, when the dead will rise, when life and immortality will come, and the world will be restored at its wish;
90. When the creation will grow deathless,--the prosperous creation of the Good Spirit,—and the Drug shall perish, though she may rush on every side to kill the holy beings; she and her hundredfold brood shall perish, as it is the will of the Lord.
For its brightness and glory, I will offer it a sacrifice ....
XVI. 91. We sacrifice unto the awful kingly Glory, made by Mazda ....
92. When Astvat-ereta shall rise up from Lake Kāsava ?, a friend of Ahura Mazda, a son of Vispataurvairi 3, knowing the victorious knowledge.
It was that Glory that Thraêtaona bore with him when Azi Dahaka was killed 4;
93. That Frangrasyan, the Turanian, bore when Drvau was killed, when the Bull was killed 6 ;
That king Husravah bore when Frangrasyan, the Turanian, was killed?;
Saoshyant; cf. Yt. XIII, 129.
Cf. § 66 and Vend. XIX, 5 (18). s See Yt. XIII, 142. Cf. $ 36. Or the demon.'
8 This line is in contradiction with what we know of the Frangrasyan legend, unless the text is corrupt and the name of Frangrasyan has been introduced here by mistake (for Keresâspa?). Yet it may allude to brighter sides, unknown to us, of the Turanian hero: the Bull (gaus) may be his brother Aghraêratha, the Bull-man (Gôpatishâh); see p. 114, note 7. ? See $ 77.
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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 |