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FRAGMENTS OF THE NASKS.
. 37. Dizad zi mãm avavata dakhsha y tha ana mashyâkâ angrahê mainyeus astiska.
XXIII. 38. Sterenồiti ana avava starem aina yatha narem ashavanem duskâ zaretem uparâd naêmâd nasus aði ava thravid.
39. Naêka paskaêta hað nå ahmad haka gataod isaêta frashutôid nõid apashûtôid thrayım kina gåmanām.
XXIV. 40. Aêvayakid aêsmô-bereitê aêvayakid baresmôstereiti,
41. Barezyo ashava zarahê his drugem. 42. Frâdhâiti ashem
43. Vispem ashavanem vahistem à ahùm à baraiti
44. (cf. § 74) Shâtem dadaiti urvânem ashaonô iriritânahê.
XXV, XXVI. XXV.—45. Hâuka ithra Spitama Zarathustra takhmanãm tankisto paiti-gasâd yô aêta hiskyâta hiskyânaôtemem paiti-gasad,
46. Arem maiti mata mamnê arem mûkhti (read akhti) khûkhti (read hukhti) arem varsti hvaresta.
I'A man burning with fever' (which is a fire sent by Ahriman).
? This fragment, which refers to the same subject as fragment XXI, is quoted in an abridged form in the Pahlavi Vendidad III, 14 (see Fragments to the Vendîdad), to show that throwing hêhr (water soiled) into water or fire is as bad as casting na så (dead matter) on one of the faithful.
• The old man defiled with the Nasu.
• As he cannot venture into contact with the faithful till he has been purified (cf. Vd. VIII, 35 sq.)
• It looks as if the five quotations of which this fragment is
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