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VII. SUNDRY FRAGMENTS.
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Do not afflict, O Zarathustra! either Pourushaspa ', or Dughdhava', or thy teachers.
Kathrâyâim athraiãm (Shayast là-Shâyast XIII, 17). The manifestation by the fire 8.
6. Anaomở mananghề kya visai kva paro * ?
This is an Avesta-i mâr zadan (or text to be recited while killing a serpent). *If one recite it while killing a serpent, one gathers thereby the same merit as if one had killed a heretic' (Gr. Ravâyat, p. 383). The text is too corrupt to allow of any translation, but it contains allusions to Varshna, son of Hanghau vaungh, son of Gâmâspa, whose Fravashi is invoked in the Fröhars Yast, $ 104, to withstand the evil Pairikas, and who, from the present formula, appears to have been a dragon-destroyer.
Varshnahệ thwãm anghrô Urushnois Gamaspanahê puthrahe puthrem apaitighni ama yim davata Ashis apatható paitim âpem dãmnsâvyām nổid hvâzâtô nôid zâniti nôid amau arenau hvais åtee yaza agithô ânem såyaêti yvaêka yavaêtâtaêka. Ashem vohů.
1 His father.
? His mother. . The manifestation of the truth by the fire-ordeal.
• A quotation in the Kim-i gâsân 6 (West, Pahlavi Texts, I, 356, with the various readings in note 1).
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