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FARGARD XXII.
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sand fleet, swift-running steeds; I offer thee up a sacrifice, O good Saoka', made by Mazda and holy.
Unto thee will I give in return a thousand fleet, high-humped camels; I offer thee up a sacrifice, O good Saoka, made by Mazda and holy.
4 (12). "Unto thee will I give in return a thousand brown oxen that do not push; I offer thee up a sacrifice, O good Saoka, made by Mazda and holy.
Unto thee will I give in return a thousand females big with young, of all species of small cattle; I offer thee up a sacrifice, O good Saoka, made by Mazda and holy.
5 (16). “And I will bless thee with the fair blessing-spell of the righteous, the friendly blessingspell of the righteous, that makes the empty swell to fulness and the full to overflowing, that comes to help him who was sickening, and makes the sick man sound again.
6 (20). “Mãthra Spenta, the all-glorious, replied unto me: “How shall I heal thee? How shall I drive away from thee those nine diseases, and those ninety, those nine hundred, those nine thousand, and those nine times ten thousand diseases?".
II. 7 (22). The Maker Ahura Mazda called for Nairyð-sangha: Go thou, Nairyo-sangha, the herald, and drive towards the mansion of Airyaman, and speak thus unto him :
· The Genius of the good eye; see Farg. XIX, 37, and note.
• The messenger of Ahura Mazda. He is a form of Âtar, the Fire (Yasna XVII, 11 [68]).
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