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YASTS AND SÎRÔZAHS.
tie them up according to the rites, being bound and unbound according to the rites.
'The smallest twig of Haoma, pounded according to the rules, the smallest twig prepared for sacrifice, gives royalty to the man (who does it).'
Ashem Vohồ: Holiness is the best of all good ....
IV. 24? Zarathustra said: 'O young king Vistâspa !
Invoke Ahura Mazda, who is full of Glory, Ahura Mazda, and the sovereign Heaven, the boundless Time, and Vayu who works highly.
25. 'Invoke the powerful Wind, made by Mazda, and Fate.
Repeat thou those words, that the god invoked may give thee the boon wished for; that thou, strong, and belonging to the creation of the good Spirit, mayest smite and take away the Drug and watch with full success those who hate thee; smite down thy foes, and destroy at one stroke thy adversaries, thy enemies, and those who hate thee 2.
26. ' Proclaim thou those prayers : they will cleanse thy body from deeds of lusts, O young king Vistâspa !
'I will worship thee, O Fire, son of Ahura Mazda, who art a valiant warrior. He falls upon the fiend Kunda “, who is drunken without drinking, upon the men of the Drug, the slothful ones, the wicked Daêva-worshippers, who live in sin.
1 Cf. Vend. XIX, 13.
2 Cf. Yt. V, 53. 8 Paourvô vasta saota: read skya othna (cf. § 40), as in Vend. XVI, 14 (paourvô-vasna skynothna).
. Cf. Vend. XI, 9 and Bundahis XXVIII, 42.
5 Cf. Vend. XIX, 41; better : 'on the Drugaskân' (the sons of the Drug ? see Bund. XXXI, 6).
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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 |