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YASTS AND SÎRÔZAHS.
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Yathâ ah û vairyô: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness ....
'Ashem Vohû: Holiness is the best of all good ....
[Give) unto that man brightness and glory, .... give him the bright, all-happy, blissful abode of the holy Ones.'
XXIV. VÍSTÂSP YAST.
1. 'I am a pious man, who speaks words of blessing,' thus said Zarathustra to the young king Vîstâspa 1.—'She? appears to me full of Glory, O Zarathustra !'—'O young king Vîstâspa! [I bless thee 3) with the living of a good life, of an exalted life, of a long life. May thy men live long! May thy women live long! May sons be born unto thee of thy own body 4!
2. ‘Mayest thou thyself be holy, like Zarathustra!
'Mayest thou be rich in cattle, like an Athwyanide 6!
"Mayest thou be rich in horses, like Pourus-aspa?!
Mayest thou have a good share of bliss , like king Husravah !
Mayest thou have strength to reach the Rangha, whose way lies afar, as Vafra Navâza dido.
1 Literally, O young king Vistâspa! (or, O my son, king Vîstâspa !)
2 The law of Mazda (Pahl.). : Understood in âfri-vakau (who speaks blessing). + Cf. Yt. XXIII, 1. * Khayeus (=nafsman) belongs to § 2 (W.). 6 See p. 326, note 8.
7 See p. 326, note 9. 8 Immortality (cf. Yt. XXIII, 7). W. has ashem merezô= ahlâyîh patmânîk, amargîg (Pahl.).
9 Cf. Yt. XXIII, 4.
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