________________
VISPARAD XVII, XVIII.
359
for us in the Yasna Ahura Mazda, the holy, has known as the better 1, and of these Zarathustra is the living chief? and master. And we sacrifice to the fields and the waters, the lands and the plants, and to the constituent parts of the Yasna Haptanghaiti, its chapters, its metred lines, its words, and wordstructure.
VISPARAD XVII (Sp. XX) !. And we strive after the good thoughts, words, and deeds inculcated in the Yasna Haptanghaiti. A blessing is the Right (called) the Best, (there is) weal; (there is) weal for this (man) when toward Righteousness Best (there is) right.
VISPARAD XVIII (Sp. XXI)“. 1. We worship Ahura Mazda with the usta 6. And we worship the Amesha Spenta with the usta, and the holy man, the saint. And we worship the prior world of the holy (and of the clean) with an usta, and the state of weal and salvation for the holy man (the saint). 2. And we worship that life-long state of blessedness (for the holy) which is the evil man's calamity®; yea, we worship his eternal? salvation, and with the salvation prayer. And we sacrifice to every saint who
Comp. Y. LI, 22. · Anghuska ratuska here referred to the same person; comp. ahd. • An addition to chapter XVI.
• This piece having reference to various expressions in the Gåtha Ustavaiti, follows it in the Vendidad Sådah. • Referring to usta in Y. XLIII, 1.
See Y. XLV, 7. 1 Akaranem=the eternal thing; otherwise an adjective of two terminations; or, finally, read -ãm.
Digitized by
Digitized by Google