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YASNA XIX,
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13. And we worship the Mãthra-spenta (the bounteous word-of-reason), the Zarathustrian law against the Daêvas, and its long descent.
14. And we worship Mount Ushi-darena which is Mazda-made and shining with its holiness, and all the mountains shining with holiness, and of abundant glory, and which Mazda made .
15. And we worship the good and pious prayer for blessings, (16) and these waters and (these lands), (17) and all the greatest chieftains, lords of the ritual order?;
18. And I praise, invoke, and glorify the good, heroic, bountiful Fravashis of the saints, those of the house, the Vis, the Zantuma, the Dahvyuma ?, and the Zarathustrôtema, and all the holy Yazads S!
YASNA XVIII 1. Grant me, Thou who art maker of the Kine, plants and waters, Immortality, Mazda! Grant, too, Weal, Spirit bounteous —
YASNA XIX. ZAND OR COMMENTARY ON THE AHUNA-VAIRYA
FORMULAS (As the Ahd is excellent, so (is) the Ratu (one who rules) from the righteous Order, a creator of mental goodness and of life's actions done for Mazda; and
11-17 occur also in MSS. as Y. LIX, 1-17. ? Dahyuma.
The Yênhê hâtăm follows. See Y. LI, 7, and Y. XLVII. The obvious errors contained in this ancient comment cannot
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