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them for a swift race, and for a swift race does the fleer invoke them;
36. Who turn to that side where are faithful men, most devoted to holiness, and where is the greatest piety, where the faithful man is rejoiced, and where the faithful man is not ill-treated 1.
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37. We worship the good, strong, beneficent Fravashis of the faithful, who form many battalions, girded with weapons a, lifting up spears, and full of sheen; who in fearful battles come rushing along where the gallant heroes 8 go and assail the Dânus*.
38. There you destroy the victorious strength of the Turanian Danus; there you destroy the malice of the Turanian Dânus; through you the chiefs are of high intellect and most successful; they, the gallant heroes 3, the gallant Saoshyants?, the gallant conquerors of the offspring of the Dânus chiefs of myriads, who wound with stones 8.
39. We worship the good, strong, beneficent Fravashis of the faithful, who rout the two wings of an army standing in battle array, who make the centre swerve, and swiftly pursue onwards, to help the faithful and to distress the doers of evil deeds.
XI. 40. We worship the good, strong, beneficent 1 Cf. § 25. Yâstô-zayau.
9 Doubtful. + Yt. V, 72.
Doubtful. * Hvîra; see Études Iraniennes, II, 183. ? Cf. p. 165, note 1.
: Doubtful (asabana).
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