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FARGARD XXII.
239 beautiful, the shining, seen afar (there may I go up, there may I arrive !)
15 (39). “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 vowfulfiller!
16 (40). «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 fleet, high-humped camels; I offer thee up a sacrifice, O good Saoka, made by Mazda and holy.
17 (44). Unto thee will I give in return a thousand brown oxen that do not pash; 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.
18 (48). “And I will bless thee with the fair blessing-spell of the righteous, the friendly blessingspell 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.'
IV. . 19 (52). Quickly was it done, nor was it long, eagerly set off the vow-fulfilling Airyaman, towards
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