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YASTS AND SÎRÔZAHS.
He who has little friendship for the Law, I have placed him down below to suffer.'
44. Thus said Angra Mainyu, he who has no Glory in him, who is full of death : 'This is an unbeliever, let us throw him down below; this is a liar, or a traitor to his relatives, and like a mad dog who wounds cattle and men ; but the dog who inAlicts wounds pays for it as for wilful murder
'The first time he shall smite a faithful man, the first time he shall wound a faithful man, he shall pay for it as for wilful murder.
Ashem Vohd: Holiness is the best of all good ....
VII. 45. Mayest thou receive ?, O holy young king Vistâspa ! (a house) with a hundred ....), ten thousand large windows, ten thousand small windows, all the year long 4, O holy Vistâspa! never growing old, never dying, never decaying, never rotting, giving plenty of meat, plenty of food, plenty of clothes to the other worshippers of Mazda.
46. May all boons be bestowed upon thee, as I proclaim it unto thee! May the Amesha-Spentas impart to thee their brightness and glory and plenty 5! May they give him quick and swift horses and good sons, strong, great in all things, powerful to sing the hymns.
The Vend.
i See Vend. XIII, 31. 2 In Paradise ; see Vend. XVIII, 28, text and note.
3 Satayâre: that stands a hundred years (?). XVIII, 28 has with a hundred columns.'
• Uninjured by the changes of temperature. • Cf. § 34.
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