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12. 'I am the Keeper1; I am the Creator and the Maintainer2; I am the Discerner3; I am the most beneficent Spirit.
'My name is the bestower of health; my name is the best bestower of health.
'My name is the Athravan1; my name is the most Athravan-like of all Athravans.
ORMAZD YAST.
'My name is Ahura (the Lord).
'My name is Mazdau (the all-knowing). 'My name is the Holy; my name is the most Holy.
'My name is the Glorious; my name is the most Glorious.
'My name is the Full-seeing; my name is the Fullest-seeing.
'My name is the Far-seeing; my name is the Farthest-seeing.
13. 'My name is the Protector; my name is the Well-wisher; my name is the Creator; my name is the Keeper; my name is the Maintainer.
'My name is the Discerner; my name is the Best Discerner.
'My name is the Prosperity-producer; my name is the Word of Prosperity.
'My name is the King who rules at his will;
1 'I keep the creation' (Phl. tr.).
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I created the world and I maintain it' (ibid.).
I can know what is useful and what is hurtful' (ibid.). ♦ 'The priest.'
5 I impart increase to the righteous' (Phl. tr.).
Doubtful. Fsûsô-mãthrô is used in several passages as the name of a part of the Avesta, Yasna LVIII [LVII], which appears to be called so from the presence in it of the words fsûsa, fsûman, 'thriving, causing to thrive,' which aptly express its
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