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 XVIII.
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15 (34). Ahura Mazda answered: “It is the bird named Parðdars?, which ill-speaking people call Kahrkatās?, O holy Zarathustra! the bird that lifts up his voice against the mighty Ushah 3 :
16 (37). ““ Arise, O men! recite the Ashem yad vahistem that smites down the Daêvas“. Lo! here is Bashyāsta, the long-handed", coming upon you, who lulls to sleep again the whole living world, as soon as it has awoke: 'Sleep!'[she says,]'O poor man! the time is not yet come.'".
17 (41). ""On the three excellent things be never intent, namely, good thoughts, good words, and good deeds; on the three abominable things be ever
protects the world from the demons of the night, and the dead from the terrors of death and from the assaults of Angra Mainyu and Astô-vidotu. It is through a sacrifice performed by Ormazd, as a Zölf, and Srôsh, as a Râspî, that at the end of time Ahriman will be for ever vanquished and brought to nought (Yasna LVII; Yt. XI, &c.)
1 'He who foreshows the coming dawn; the cock.'
3.When he is not called so, he is powerful' (Comm.) Cl. Farg. XIII, 2, 6.
• Ushah, the second half of the night, from midnight to the dawn.
• The cock is the drum of the world.' As crowing in the dawn that dazzles away the fiends, he crows away the demons: The cock was created to fight against the fiends and wizards; ... he is with the dog an ally of Srðsh against demons' (Bundahis XIX). "No demon can enter a house in which there is a cock; and, above all, should this bird come to the residence of a demon, and move his tongue to chaunt the praises of the glorious and exalted Creator, that instant the evil spirit takes to flight' (Mirkhond, History of the Early Kings of Persia, translated by Shea, p. 57; cf. Saddar 32, and J. Ovington, A Voyage to Suratt, 1696, p. 371).
sleep, laziness, procrastination. She lulls back to sleep the world as soon as awaked, and makes the faithful forget in slumber the hour of prayer.
• To perform thy religious duties' (Comm.)
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