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VASTS AND SÎRÔZAHS.
1. 1. Ahura Mazda spake unto Spitama Zarathustra, saying: 'Offer up a sacrifice, O Spitama Zarathustra ! unto this spring of mine, Ardvi Sûra Anâhita, the wide-expanding and health-giving, who hates the Daêvas and obeys the laws of Ahura, who is worthy of sacrifice in the material world, worthy of prayer in the material world; the life-increasing2 and holy, the herd-increasing and holy, the fold-increasing and holy, the wealth-increasing and holy, the countryincreasing and holy;
2. 'Who makes the seed of all males pures, who makes the womb of all females pure for bringing forth 4, who makes all females bring forth in safety, who puts milk into the breasts of all females in the right measure and the right quality;
3. 'The large river, known afar, that is as large as the whole of the waters that run along the earth ; that runs powerfully from the height Hukairya 5 down to the sea Vouru-Kasha.
4. 'All the shores of the sea Vouru-Kasha are 1. As she comes down to all places' (Phl. tr, ad Yasna LXV, 1 [LXVI, 2]).
? Âdhu, translated gân; 'she makes life longer' (Aspendiârji). Perhaps âdhu will be better translated springs, rivers (reading gûy instead of gân; cf. Yt. VIII, 29).
3.Pure and sound, without blood and filth' (Phl. tr.). + "So that it may conceive again' (Phl. tr.).
0 'Hagar the lofty is that from which the water of Arêdvîvsûr leaps down the height of a thousand men' (Bundahis XII, 5, tr. West); cf. infra, &$ 96, 121, 126; Yt. XIII, 24. The Hukairya is mentioned again § 25 and Yt. IX, 8; Yt. X, 88; Yt. XV, 15; Yt. XVII, 28. It appears to be situated in the west (Bundahis XXIV, 17; II, 7; Minokhired XLIV, 12).
• The earth-surrounding Ocean; cf. Vendîdâd V, 15 (49) seq., text and notes.
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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 |