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YASNA LXV.
the Hadhânaệpata plant, then afterwards Ahura Mazda's Fire will bless him, contented, not offended, and in its) satisfaction (saying thus). 10. May a herd of kine be with thee, and a multitude of men, may an active mind go with thee, and an active soul as well. As a blest soul may’st thou live through thy life, the nights which thou shall live. This is the blessing of the Fire for him who brings it wood (well) dried, sought out for flaming, purified with the earnest blessing of the sacred ritual truth? 11. We strive after the flowing on of the good waters, and their ebb 2 as well, and the sounding of their waves, desiring their propitiation; I desire to approach them with my praise 8. 12 = Y. III, 24, 25.
YASNA LXIII. (Sp. LXII). (See Y. XV, 2; Y. LXVI, 2; Y. XXXVIII, 3.)
YASNA LXIV (Sp. LXIII). (See Y. XLVI, 3; Y. L, 6–11.)
YASNA LXV (Sp. LXIV). To Ardvi Sora AnÂHITA, AND THE Waters.
1. I will praise the water Ardvi Sara Anâhita, the wide-flowing (as it is) and healing in its influence,
1 The Ashem Voh occurs here.
? Or, 'falling.' s See as alternative Darmesteter's masterly rendering of the Atas Nyayis, 7-18.
• This chapter is composed of short passages from other portions of the Yasna collected together possibly for the purpose of filling out the number of sections to some figure no longer known.
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