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FRAGMENTS OF THE NASKS.
O thou, my perishable body, think good thoughts with thy mind! | 26. Aad mãm tanvô ithyêganguhaiti lizva mraidhi hûkhtem.
O thou, my perishable body, speak good words with thy tongue!
27. Aad mãm tanvô ithyêganguhaiti zastaêibya vareza hvarestem shyaothanem.
O thou, my perishable body, do good deeds with thy hands!
28. Mã mãm tanvô ithyêganguhaiti angrai vaire fraspayðis yim khrvantem aithivantem, yim daêvim afraderesavantem fråkerentad angrô mainyus pôurumahrkő bunem angheus temanghahê yad ereghatô daozanghahê.
Othou, my perishable body, do not throw me down into the Var of Angra Mainyu", terrible, dreadful, (frightful), dark, undiscernible (for the darkness there is so dense that it can be grasped with the hand 2), which Gana Mainyu fabricated at the bottom of the dark world of endless hell.
29. There is a passage in which Hôrmazd says to Zarathustra:
30. I created, O Spitama Zarathustra ! the stars, the moon, the sun, and the red burning fire, the dogs, the birds, and the five kinds of animals 3 ; but, better and greater than all, I created the righteous man who has truly received from me the Praise of Asha 4 in the good Religion.
31. But without any reason men adhere to that
Hell. See above, p. 66, note 5. Cf. Ardà Viráf XVIII. * See Yt. XIII, 10 and note. · The recitation of the Ashem Voha, the epitome of religion.
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