Sacred Laws of Aryas

SR No.: 007687
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Gorge Buhler
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1897
Total Pages: 1979
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 36 MB

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FARGARD X.
139
""I drive away Indra!, I drive away Sauru', I drive away the daeva Naunghaithya ', from this house, from this borough, from this town, from this land; from the very body of the man defiled by the dead, from the very body of the woman defiled by the dead; from the master of the house, from the lord of the borough, from the lord of the town, from the lord of the land; from the whole of the world of Righteousness.
10 (18). ““I drive away Tauru!, I drive away Zairi", from this house, from this borough, from this town, from this land; from the very body of the man defiled by the dead, from the very body of the woman defiled by the dead; from the master of the house, from the lord of the borough, from the lord of the town, from the lord of the land; from the whole of the holy world.”'
II (19). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Which are those words in the Gathas that are to be said four times ?
12 (22). Ahura Mazda answered : 'These are the words in the Gâthas that are to be said four times, and thou shalt four times say them aloud :
yatha ahở vairyo ...' (Yas. XXVII, 13),
Indra, Sauru, Naunghaithya, Tauru, and Zairi are (with Akemmanô, here replaced by the Nasu), the six chief demons, and stand to the Amesha Spentas in the same relation as Angra Mainyu to Spenta Mainyu. Indra opposes Asha Vahista and turns men's hearts from good works; Sauru opposes Khshathra Vairya, he presides over bad government ; Neunghaithya opposes Spenta Ârmaiti, he is the demon of discontent; Tauru and Zairi oppose Haurvatât and Ameretât and poison the waters and the plants.-Akem-mand, Bad Thought, opposes Vohu-mano, Good Thought.
• Translated Farg. VIII, 19.
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