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NYÂYIS.
Hail unto thee, O Fire, son of Ahura Mazda, thou beneficent and most great Yazata !
*Ashem Voha : Holiness is the best of all good .... I confess myself a worshipper of Mazda ..... For sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification ....
Unto Åtar, the son of Ahura Mazda; unto thee Åtar, son of Ahura Mazda!
5? Unto Âtar, the son of Ahura Mazda; unto the Glory and the Weal, made by Mazda; unto the Glory of the Aryas, made by Mazda ; unto the Glory of the Kavis, made by Mazda.
Unto Atar, the son of Ahura Mazda ; unto king Husravah ; unto the lake of Husravah; unto Mount Åsnavant, made by Mazda; unto Lake Kaêkasta, made by Mazda; unto the Glory of the Kavis, made by Mazda.
6. Unto Âtar, the son of Ahura Mazda; unto Mount Raêvant, made by Mazda; unto the Glory of the Kavis, made by Mazda.
Unto Atar, the son of Ahura Mazda.
Unto Âtar, the beneficent, the warrior; the God who is a full source of Glory, the God who is a full source of healing.
Unto Atar, the son of Ahura Mazda, with all Âtars; unto the God Nairyô-sangha, who dwells in the navel of kings;
Be propitiation, with sacrifice, prayer, propitiation, and glorification.
Yathâ ahở vairyô: The will of the Lord is the law of holiness ....
73. I bless the sacrifice and invocation, and the
As in Ormazd Yast, o.
2 Cf. Sîrôzah, $ 9. 8 $$ 7-16=Yasna LXII, 1–10 (LXI). See the Sanskrit translation in Etudes Iraniennes, II.
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