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YASTS AND SÎRÔZAHS.
59. 'Grant that we, in a good spirit and high spirit, exalted in joy and a good spirit, may smite all our foes; that we, in a good spirit and high spirit, exalted in joy and a good spirit, may smite all our enemies; that we, in a good spirit and high spirit, exalted in joy and a good spirit, may smite all the malice of Daêvas and Men, of the Yâtus and Pairikas, of the oppressors, the blind, and the deaf.
*For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth being heard ....
XIV. 60. “We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake;
Whose renown is good, whose shape is good, whose glory is good; who has boons to give at his will, who has pasture-fields to give at his will ; harmless to the tiller of the ground, . ..., beneficent; he, of the ten thousand spies, the powerful, all-knowing, undeceivable god.
*For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth being heard ....
XV. 61. 'We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake;
Firm-legged ?, a watcher fully awake; valiant, a chief in assemblies; making the waters flow forward; listening to appeals; making the waters run and the plants grow up; ruling over the Karsh
1 The text is corrupt (vasô-yaonâi inatâm ?).
· Eredhwô-zangem: sudridhaganghata, kila kârye yad pâdâbhyâm yugyate kartum vyavasayi saktaska (Yasna LXII, 5 [LXI, 13]).
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