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YASTS AND SÎRÔZAHS.
That king Vistâspa bore, when he victoriously maintained Holiness against the host of the fiends and took off the Drug from the world of the good principle 1.
94. He ?, with the eye of intelligence ", shall look down upon all the creatures of the Paêsis 4, her of the evil seed: he shall look upon the whole living world with the eye of plenty, and his look shall deliver to immortality the whole of the living creatures.
95. And there shall his friends o come forward, the friends of Astvat-ereta, who are fiend-smiting, well-thinking, well-speaking, well-doing, following the good law, and whose tongues have never uttered a word of falsehood.
Before them shall Aêshma of the wounding spear, who has no Glory, bow and flee; he shall smite the most wicked Drug, her of the evil seed, born of darkness.
96. Akem-Manô 6 smites, but Vohu-Manô shall smite him ; the Word of falsehood smites, but the Word of truth shall smite it. Haurvatât and Ameretât? shall smite both hunger and thirst : Haurvatât and Ameretât shall smite the evil hunger and the evil thirst. The evil-doing Angra Mainyu bows and flees, becoming powerless.
For its brightness and glory, I will offer it a sacrifice ....
97. Yathâ ahû vairyô: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness ....
1 Cf. $ 84. Saoshyant.
Cf. Yt. I, 28. • A name of the Drug.
• See p. 220, note 1. & See p. 297, note 4.
? The Genii of the waters and of the plants (cf. Vend. Introd. IV, 34).
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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 |