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MISCELLANEOUS FRAGMENTS.
1. (An incitation to the priest or worshipper.) As thou keepest company with the Good Mind, and with Righteousness the Best, and with Khshathravairya (the Kingdom to be desired), speak to the male and female disciples of Zarathustra Spitama the saint, (and declare) the praise which is to be spoken, that of the Yasna, even the words against which no anger shall prevail.
2. And do thou, O Zarathustra >! declare our words for sacrifice and worship, ours, the Bountiful Immortals', that the waters may (thus) be sacrificed to by thee, and the plants, the Fravashis of the saints, and the created Yazads, heavenly and earthly, which are holy and beneficent.
1. I confess myself a Mazda-worshipper-for the praise of Thraêtaona, the Athwyan. Let them declare it Propitiation be to the Fravashi of Thraêtaona, the Athwyan, the saint. 2. We sacrifice to Thraêtaona, the Athwyan, the holy lord of the ritual order ; and may we be free from the dog Kuro 3, and the Tarewani?and the Karpan, (we who are) of those who sacrifice in order. 3. (The Ahuna
1 Others the unrestricted words. ? Perhaps · Zarathustra' is here merely the equivalent of “ priest. Obscure.
4 Awkward formations.
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