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6. Amongst which stand Mount Gatara, Mount Adhutavau, Mount Spita varena, Mount Spentôdâta!, Mount Kadrva-aspa?, Mount Kaoirisa 3, Mount Taêra“, Mount Barô-srayana, Mount Barana, Mount Frâ payau, Mount U drya, and Mount Raêvants, and all those heights to which men have given the name of mount,
7. To the number of two thousand mountains, and two hundred and forty and four 8, O Spitama Zarathustra!
8. For its brightness and glory, I will offer it a sacrifice worth being heard, namely, unto the awful kingly Glory. Unto the awful kingly Glory we offer up the libations, the Haoma and meat, the baresma, the wisdom of the tongue, the holy spells, the speech, the deeds, the libations, and the rightly-spoken words?
Yênhê hâtãm: All those beings of whom Ahura Mazda? ....
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9. We sacrifice unto the awful kingly Glory, made by Mazda; most conquering, highly working, that possesses health, wisdom, and happiness, and is more powerful to destroy than all other creatures;
1 The Spendyâd mountain, near Mount Rêvand (Bundahis XII, 23).
· The Kôndrâsp mountain, by the town of Tas (in Khorasan, Bund. XII, 24).
8 The Kôîrâs mountain in frân-Vêg (Bund. XII, 25). * Cf. Yt. XV, 7, and p. 58, note 2. • See p. 8, notes i and 2.
• The other mountains have grown out of Albârs, in number 2244 mountains' (Bund. XII, 2). ? See notes to Yt. III, 17 (p. 47).
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