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YASTS AND SÎRÔZAHS.
Mithra is fiftyfold between wife and husband 1;
Mithra is sixtyfold between two pupils (of the same master);
Mithra is seventyfold between the pupil and his master;
'Mithra is eightyfold between the son-in-law.and his father-in-law ;
Mithra is ninetyfold between two brothers;
117. Mithra is a hundredfold between the father and the son;
Mithra is a thousandfold between two nations ?;
Mithra is ten thousandfold when connected with the Law of Mazda 3, and then he will be every day of victorious strength.
118. “May I come unto thee with a prayer that goes lowly or goes highly! As this sun rises up above the Hara Berezaiti and then fulfils its career, so may I, O Spitama ! with a prayer that goes lowly or goes highly, rise up above the will of the fiend Angra Mainyu 6!
'For his brightness and glory, I will offer him a sacrifice worth being heard ....
XXX 119. We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake.
Offer up a sacrifice unto Mithra, O Spitama! and order thy pupils to do the same.
1 Doubtful. ? A fair recognition of the jus gentium.
• The contract between the faithful and the Law, the covenant (?).
* Reading [h]amahê ayãn. • The last clause is doubtful; the text is corrupt. * Prayer follows Mithra in his career, rising and setting with him.
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