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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49 (104). The Drug demon answered: 'O holy, well-formed Sraosha! this is the thing that undoes it, namely, if the man, when he has risen from sleep, shall say three Ahuna-Vairya, two humatanãm, three hukhshathrôtemãm, and then chant the Ahuna-Vairya and offer up one Yênhê hatãm'.
50 (107). 'He does thereby as thoroughly destroy the fruit of my womb as a four-footed wolf does who tears the child out of a mother's womb.
51 (108). Then he shall speak unto Spenta Årmaiti?, saying: 'O Spenta Årmaiti, this man do I deliver unto thee 3; this man deliver thou back unto me, against the happy day of resurrection; deliver him back as one who knows the Gathas, who knows the Yasna“, and the revealed Laws, a wise and clever man, who is Obedience incarnate.
52 (112). “Then thou shalt call his name "Firecreature, Fire-seed, Fire-offspring, Fire-land," or any name wherein is the word Fire!
53 (113). The holy Sraosha, letting his club down upon her, asked the Drug: 'O thou wretched, worthless Drug! Who is the fourth of those males of thine ?'
54 (114). The Drug demon answered : 'O holy,
See $ 43 and notes.
The Genius of the Earth (cf. Farg. II, 10). * In the same way as she received the seed of the dying Gayomart, from which she let grow, in the shape of a plant, the first human couple, Mashya and Mashyâna (Bund. XV, 1-2). • The Yasna Haptanhâiti.
Literally, the answers made to the questions (of Zarathustra).' • Atar, the Fire, is the ideal father of the son to be born, as Spenta Armaiti, the Earth, is his ideal mother. The fire is considered male (Dinkard, apud West, Pahlavi Texts, II, 410) and (as Apãm Napât) has made and shaped man (Yt. XIX, 52).
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