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doing Daêvas tremble at his perfume after death, as doth a sheep on which a wolf is pouncing 1').
As the sheep, on which the wolf is pouncing, tremble at the odour of the wolf, so these Druges tremble at the perfume of the blessed one.
20. For whosoever has been born and whosoever shall be born must act in such a way that, when the moment comes to leave this world, he may have Paradise as his portion and Garôthmân as his reward.
21. There is a passage in which Hôrmazd said to Zarathustra: 'I created, O Spitama Zarathustra ! good renown and salvation of the soul;'
22. (That is to say, good renown in this world and salvation of the soul in the next 2).
And in case of doubt we must consider as being saved,
23. Him who, for all we have seen and known, has been a believer in body and soul, and has rejoiced Hôrmazd and afflicted Ahriman,
24. And whoever has had this for his main object, or has been the source of this benefit, that from him should flow prosperity and joy, and from him should flow no harm and no pain.
And there is a passage in which the soul says to the body :
25. Åad mãm tanvð ithyêganguhaiti manya manangha humatem.
· Vd. XIX, 33, and notes 4, 5. . See above, p. 253, $ 4, note 5. s Asho, "holy, blessed, saved ;' in opposition to drvant, wicked, damned. • Supplied from the Pahlavi transcription.
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