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YASTS AND SÎRÔZAHS.
XIII. 20. Whether thou, O holy Rashnu! art at one of the angles. of this earth, we invoke we bless Rashnu. I invoke his friendship towards this var prepared ....
XIV. 21. Whether thou, O holy Rashnu ! art at the boundary of this earth, we invoke, we bless Rashnu. I invoke his friendship towards this var prepared ....
XV. 22. Whether thou, O holy Rashnu! art in any place of this earth, we invoke, we bless Rashnu. I invoke his friendship towards this var prepared ....
XVI. 23. Whether thou, O holy Rashnu! art on the Hara Berezaiti, the bright mountain around which the many (stars) revolve, where come neither night nor darkness, no cold wind and no hot wind, no deathful sickness, no uncleanness made by the Daêvas, and the clouds cannot reach up unto the Haraiti Bareza”; we invoke, we bless Rashnu. I invoke his friendship towards this var prepared....
XVII. 24. Whether thou, O holy Rashnu! art upon the highest Hukairya, of the deep precipices ?, made of gold, wherefrom this river of mine, Ardvi Sara Anâhita, leaps from a thousand times the height of a man, we invoke, we bless Rashnu, the strong. I invoke his friendship towards this var prepared ...,
1 Cf. Yt. X, 50. . 2 Reading vîspô-vaêmem; cf. Yt. V, 96, note 7.
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