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FARVARDİN YAST.
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ruler, Ahura Mazda, flowed forward and his plants went on growing.
79. We worship all the waters; We worship all the plants;
We worship all the good, strong, beneficent Fravashis of the faithful.
We worship the waters by their names 1; We worship the plants by their names 2;
We worship the good, strong, beneficent Fravashis of the faithful by their names.
80. Of all those ancient Fravashis, we worship the Fravashi of Ahura Mazda ; who is the greatest, the best, the fairest, the most solid, the wisest, the finest of body and supreme in holiness : ;
81. Whose soul is the Măthra Spenta, who is white, shining, seen afar; and we worship the beautiful forms, the active forms wherewith he clothes the Amesha-Spentas; we worship the swift-horsed sun.
XXIII. 82. We worship the good, strong, beneficent Fravashis of the Amesha-Spentas, the bright ones, whose looks perform what they wish, the tall, quickly coming to do, strong, and lordly, who are undecaying and holy;
83. Who are all seven of one thought, who are all seven of one speech, who are all seven of one deed; whose thought is the same, whose speech is the same, whose deed is the same, whose father and
That is to say, after their different kinds (described in Yasna XXXVIII, 3, 5 [7-9, 13-14]; LXVIII, 8 [LXVII, 15); and Bund. XXI).
: After their kinds (Bund. XXVII). s Cf. Yasna I, 1.
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