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8 (23). Thus speaks Ahura Mazda, the Holy One, unto thee :
'I, Ahura Mazda, the Maker of all good things, when I made this mansion, the beautiful, the shining, seen afar (there may I ascend, there may I arrive !)
9 (24). "Then the ruffian looked at me; the ruffian Angra Mainyu, the deadly, wrought against me nine diseases, and ninety, and nine hundred, and nine thousand, and nine times ten thousand diseases. So mayst thou heal me, O Airyaman, the vow-fulfiller!
10 (26). "Unto thee will I give in return a thousand fleet, swift-running steeds; I offer thee up a sacrifice, O good Saoka, made by Mazda and holy.
"Unto thee will I give in return a thousand feet, highhumped camels ; I offer thee up a sacrifice, O good Saoka, made by Mazda and holy.
11 (30). Unto thee will I give in return a thousand brown oxen that do not push ; I offer thee up a sacrifice, O good Saoka, made by Mazda and holy.
Unto thee will I give in return a thousand females big with young, of all species of small cattle. I offer thee up a sacrifice, O good Saoka, made by Mazda and holy.
12 (34). “And I will bless thee with the fair blessingspell of the righteous, the friendly blessing-spell of the righteous, that makes the empty swell to fulness and the full to overflowing, that comes to help him who was sickening, and makes the sick man sound again.'
III. 13 (38). In obedience to Ahura's words he went, Nairyő-sangha, the herald; he drove towards the mansion of Airyaman, he spake unto Airyanan, saying :
14 (38). Thus speaks Ahura Mazda, the Holy One, unto thee: I, Ahura Mazda, the Maker of all good things, when I made this mansion, the
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