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YASNA LXX.
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YASNA LXIX (Sp. LXVIII). This chapter is composed of fragments : see Y. XV, 2; and Y. LI, 1 and 22.
YASNA LXX (Sp. LXIX). TO THE BOUNTIFUL IMMORTALS, AND THE
INSTITUTIONS OF Religion. 1. I would worship these (the Bountiful Immortals) with my sacrifice, those who rule aright, and who dispose (of all) aright, and this one (especially) I would approach with my praise, (Ahura Mazda). He is thus hymned (in our praise-songs). Yea, we worship in our sacrifice that deity and lord, who is Ahura Mazda, the Creator, the gracious helper, the maker of all good things; and we worship in our sacrifice Zarathustra Spitâma, that chieftain (of the rite).
2. And we would declare those institutions established for us, exact (and undeviating as they are). And I would declare forth those of Ahura Mazda, those of the Good Mind, and of Asha Vahista (who is Righteousness the Best), and those of Khshatra-vairya (the Realm to be desired), and those of the Bountiful Aramalti (the Piety within us), and those of Weal and Immortality, and those which appertain to the body o of the Kine, and to the Kine's soul, and those which appertain to Ahura Mazda's Fire, (3) and those of Sraosha (Obe
1 Reading tashvaunghem (?) (comp. dadhvaunghem), according to the indication of the Pahlavi.
? Tashan with change of accent. So the Pahlavi indicates.
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