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YASTS AND STRÔZAHS.
Unto Asha-Vahista, the fairest; unto the muchdesired Airyaman, made by Mazda, and unto the good Saoka, with eyes of love, made by Mazda and holy? ;
Be propitiation, with sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification.
Yathâ ahû vairyô: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness ....
1. Ahura Mazda spake unto Spitama Zarathustra, saying : ‘That thou mayest increase Asha-Vahista, O Spitama Zarathustra! with hymns of praise, with performance of the office, with invocations, holy words, sacrifice, blessings, and adoration-once to abide in the shining luminous space, in the beautiful abodes 3—for the sacrifice and invocation of us, the Amesha-Spentast' .....
2. Zarathustra said: 'Say unto me the right words, such as they are, O Ahura Mazda! that I may increase Asha-Vahista, with hymns of praise,
1 Sîrôzah I, 3.
* Several manuscripts add here the full invocation of the greater Sîrôzah : "We sacrifice unto Asha-Vahista, the 'fairest, the Amesha
Spenta; We sacrifice unto the much-desired Airyaman We sacrifice unto the instrument, made by Mazda; We sacrifice unto the good Saoka, with eyes of love, made by
Mazda and holy.' 8 The Garô-nmânem or Paradise ; see Yasna XVI, 7 [XVII, 42], Phl. tr.
The principal clause appears to be wanting, unless Zarathustra is supposed to interrupt Ahura. One might also understand the sentence in an optative sense: 'Mayest thou increase ....
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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 |