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YASTS AND Sîrôzahs.
My name is He that crushes at one stroke. My name is....? My name is He that works against the Daêvas. My name is....2
47. My name is He that prevails over malice; my name is He that destroys malice.
My name is He that unites; my name is He that re-unites; my name is He that separates.
My name is the Burning; my name is the Quick of intelligence 3.
My name is Deliverance; my name is Welfare 4.
My name is the Burrows; my name is He who destroys the burrows); my name is He who spits upon the burrows.
48. My name is Sharpness of spear; my name is He of the sharp spear.
My name is Length of spear; my name is He of the long spear.
My name is Piercingness of spear; my name is He of the piercing spear.
My name is the Glorious; my name is the Overglorious.
496. Invoke these names of mine, O holy Zarathustra! in the midst of the havocking hordes, in the midst of the columns moving forwards, in the strife of the conflicting nations.
i Âiniva (?).
3 Keredharisa (?). : Doubtful; baoka, cf.;g? • Reading sudhis.
5 Geredha is the burrow of an Ahrimanian creature (see Vend. III, 10 [33]; VII, 24 [61]): Vayu, in that half of him that belongs to the Evil Spirit, is the seat (the burrow) of Ahriman; but with his better half, he struggles against the fiend and destroys him.
6 Cf. Yt. I, 11, 16.
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