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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VENDIDÂD.
'I invoke the ancient and sovereign Merezu 1, the most warlike of the creatures of the two Spirits 13.
'I invoke the seven bright Sru 14...'
VI. 43. 'They cried about, their minds wavered to and fro 15, Angra Mainyu the deadly, the Daêva of the Daêvas; Indra the Daêva, Sâuru the Daêva, Naunghaithya the Daêva, Taurvi and Zairi 16 ; Aêshma of the murderous spear 17; Akatasha the Daêva 18 ; Winter, made by the Daêvas; the deceiving, unseen Death ; Zaurva 19, baneful to the fathers; Buiti the Daêva 30; Driwi 21 the Daêva ; Daiwi 22 the Daêva; Kasvi 28 the Daêva ; Paitisha 24 the most Daêva-like amongst the Daêvas.]
did not belong to it, and part of which is cited in the Commentary ad Farg. VIII, 103, where it would have been more suitably placed : · When he has been cleansed in the next inhabited place, he may then sow and till the pasture fields, as food for the sheep and as food for the ox.'
11 The Kar-mâhî, the Ratu or chief of the creatures that live in water. Cf. Farg. XX, 4, note ; Yt. XIV, 29.
13 A drag Aeyourvoy. From its two epithets,' ancient' and 'sovereign,' it appears that it must designate one of the first principles, that is to say, some form of Heaven, Light, Space, or Time.
13 Doubtful.
1 Hapta sravő bâmya hanaunghô puthraunghô pusaungho bavainti.
16 Up and down, in hope and despair. 16 See Farg. X, 9-10.
17 See Farg. X, 13. 18 See Farg. X, 13.
19 Old age. 20 See above, p. 209, n. 3. 21 Malice ; see above, Farg. II, 29. * Lying ; see above, Farg. II, 29. 23 Spite ; see above, Farg. II, 29.
24 Opposition, or counter-action, the same as Paityåra; a personification of the doings of Ahriman and of his marring power.
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