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FARGARD XX.
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44 (140). 'And the evil-doing Daêva, Angra Mainyu, the deadly, said: "What! let the wicked, évil-doing Daêvas gather together at the head of Arezûra?!"
45 (141). "They rush away shouting, the wicked, evil-doing Daêvas; they run away shouting, the wicked, evil-doing Daêvas; they run away casting the Evil Eye, the wicked, evil-doing Daêvas : "Let us gather together at the head of Arezara !
46 (143). “"For he is just born the holy Zarathustra, in the house of Pourusaspa. How can we procure his death ? He is the weapon that fells the fiends: he is a counter-fiend to the fiends; he is a Drug to the Drug. Vanished are the Daêvaworshippers, the Nasu made by the Daêva, the false-speaking Lie!"
47 (147). “They rush away shouting, the wicked, evil-doing Daêvas, into the depths of the dark, raging world of hell.
*Ashem vohu: Holiness is the best of all
good.'
FARGARD XX.
Thrita, the First Healer. It has already been seen (Farg. VII, 44) that there are three kinds of medicine: one that heals with the knife, one that heals with herbs, and one that heals with sacred spells. The present Fargard deals with the origin of medicine, particularly the herbsmedicine. Its inventor was Thrita, of the Sâma family, to whom Ahura Mazda brought down from heaven ten thousand healing
At the gate of hell; see above, p. 24, n. 1.
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