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FARVARDİN YAST.
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assaults of Vidôtu', and I develop in it? the bones, the hair, the ....3, the entrails, the feet, and the sexual organs.
12. Had not the awful Fravashis of the faithful given help unto me, those animals and men of mine, of which there are such excellent kinds, would not subsist; strength would belong to the Drug, the dominion would belong to the Drug, the material world would belong to the Drug.
13 'Between the earth and the sky the immaterial creatures would be harassed by the Drug; between the earth and the sky the immaterial creatures would be smitten by the Drug; and never afterwards would Angra-Mainyu give way to the blows of SpentaMainyu.
14. Through their brightness and glory the waters run and flow forward from the never-failing springs; through their brightness and glory the plants grow up from the earth, by the never-failing springs; through their brightness and glory the winds blow, driving down the clouds towards the never-failing springs.
15. •Through their brightness and glory the females conceive offspring; through their brightness and glory they bring forth in safety;. it is through their brightness and glory when they become blessed with children.
16. “Through their brightness and glory a man is born who is a chief in assemblies and meetings, who listens well 6 to the (holy) words, whom Wisdom
1 See Vend. IV, 40 [137].
2 Doubtful. S? Derewda.
* A Trolunu dañv. * Who learns well, who has the gaosho-srûta khratu.
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| SR No. | 007672 |
| Book Title | Zend Avesta Part 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | James Darmesteter |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1883 |
| Total Pages | 2221 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 41 MB |