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ORMAZD YAST.
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My fourth name is Perfect Holiness! “My fifth name is All good things created by Mazda, the offspring of the holy principle.
My sixth name is Understanding?;
My seventh name is the One with understanding.
My eighth name is Knowledge; My ninth name is the One with Knowledge. 8. My tenth name is Weal; 'My eleventh name is He who produces weal. My twelfth name is Ahura (the Lord) 3. My thirteenth name is the most Beneficent.
My fourteenth name is He in whom there is no harm4. "My fifteenth name is the unconquerable One.
My sixteenth name is He who makes the true account. "My seventeenth name is the All-seeing One. My eighteenth name is the healing One. My nineteenth name is the Creator.
My twentieth name is Mazda (the All-knowing One).
9. ‘Worship me, O Zarathustra, by day and by
1 Asha-Vahista, which is the name of the second AmeshaSpenta too. The commentary has: 'That is, my own being is all holiness.'
? Literally: My sixth name is that I am Understanding.' The same construction is used with regard to the eighth, the tenth, and the nineteenth names.
3 It follows from this passage that a man is not fit to be a king, unless he possesses twelve virtues' (Phl. tr.).
4 'Some say: I keep harm from man' (Phl. tr.).
5 That is, I make the account of good works and sins' (Phl. tr.); prakałam gananâkaras kila punyapâpayos sankhyâm aham karomi (Sansk. tr.). Cf. Yasna XXXII, 6, b.
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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 |