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VISPARAD VIII, IX.
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VISPARAD VIII (SP. IX). 1. With this word be Thou approached 1, with the proper word be Thou present here, Thou who art Ahura Mazda, the holy, together with the good Yazads who are the Bountiful Immortals, who rule aright, and dispose (of all) aright, together with fifty, and a hundred, and a thousand, and ten thousand, and millions, and yet more.
2. And to Him who rules the best let the Kingdom be ?!
VISPARAD IX (Sp. X) . 1. (I desire to offer my homage and my praise 4) to the offered Haomas and Zaothras, and to those also which shall yet be offered, which smite victoriously, and are foes of hatred, and following in company (as they do) with the healing virtues of sanctity, following also in company with those of Kisti (religious knowledge), and with the remedies of Mazda, and with those of Zarathustra and the Zarathustrôtema, (2) and to the offered Haomas and Zaothras which accompany those remedies which belong to the holy disciple well versed in good devices, and accompanying those of the itinerant also versed in good devices, and accompanying those likewise of the good Mazdayasnian Faith, and those of the pious and beneficent Prayer for blessings, and of the pious and good veracity, and
1 Mediated'(?), or 'known,' madhayangha (-uha). * See Y. XXXV, 5. 8 This section should be read before Y. XXII. • Supplied necessarily from Visp. X, 2; see its genitive. • Or, 'sciences' (in some cases medical).
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