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ever increasing, and master of its wish, when the dead will rise, when life and immortality will come, and the world will be restored at its wish;
24. When the creation will grow deathless,—the prosperous creation of the Good Spirit,--and the Drug shall perish, though she may rush on every side to kill the holy beings; she and her hundredfold brood shall perish, as it is the will of the Lord.
For its brightness and glory, I will offer it a sacrifice ....
25. We sacrifice unto the awful kingly Glory, made by
Mazda ....
26. That clave unto Haoshyangha, the Paradhâta, for a long time, when he ruled over the seven Karshvares of the earth, over the Daêvas and men, over the Yâtus and the Pairikas, over the oppressors, the blind, and the deaf; he who smote two-thirds of the Daêvas of Mâzana and of the Varenya fiends.
For its brightness and glory, I will offer it a sacrifice ....
VI. 27. We sacrifice unto the awful kingly Glory, made by Mazda ....
28. That clave unto Takhma Urupa, the wellarmed, while he ruled over the seven Karshvares of the earth, over the Daêvas and men, the Yâtus and Pairikas, the oppressors, the blind, and the deaf;
29. When he conquered all Daêvas and men, all the Yâtus and Pairikas, and rode Angra Mainyu,
1 For forty years, according to the Bundahis (XXXIV, 4); for thirty years, according to Firdausi.
9 See Yt. V, 22.
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