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FRAGMENTS OF THE NASKS.
There is only one way of Righteousness ? ; All other ways are no ways:
It is Religion, that destroyer of Angra Mainyu, which tears to pieces the Daêva-worshippers, the men who live in sin.
3. A formula found in several colophons. Nồid kahmi zazva yô nóid urunê zazva Nõid kahmi zazusha [yô nôid urvani gazush]
Naêkis adha Zarathustra sûs yatha [him] âdare mashyâka ?
He has gained nothing who has not gained the soul,
He shall gain nothing who shall not gain the souls
There is no good for man to receive of him“, O Zarathustra !
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This fragment from the Hâdhokht Nask is quoted in the Sad-dar (ch. xl) to impress on children the respect due to their parents and masters.
Mà âzârayðis Zarathustra mà Pourushaspem ma Dughdhovãm ma arthrapaitis.
1 'The way of the Pôryðłkësh' (Paoiry8-dkaêsha; Ardà Vîrâf, CI, 15), that is, the pure orthodox religion, as founded by Zarathustra and followed by his first disciples.
* For various readings, see the Guimet Zend-Avesta, III, 150–151.
. The salvation of his soul, a place in Paradise. The Minokhard (I, 28-32) quotes the same passage with the following commentary: For the spiritual world and the material one are like two fortresses, of which one can clearly take the one, but not the other' (at the same time).
• Of Ahriman. "There is no profit to expect from the demons nor from the wicked : for if there be profit in the beginning, at the end there will be ruin' (Comm.)
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