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SHẤYAST LÂ-SHẢYAST.
five accomplishments, and he is not fit even for teaching.
30. The nineteen stanzas of Kảm-nemôi-zăm (Yas. XLV) are for this reason, that every one may so persevere in his own duty (khvêsakânih), that while those are our nineteen propitiations (a ûsêfrid), which it says in the Sakâdûm Nasks should be my own, the strength and power of the angels shall become more considerable, and the destroyer more perishable.
31. The Ustavaiti Gâtha is a Gâtha (gas) of four chapters, and each stanza of five lines (gas), except Haêkad-aspâ-vakhshya (Yas. XLV, 15) 32. The two repetitions of Usta-ahmâi (Yas. XLII, 1)" are, one as a retention and embrace of Adharmazd, and one as a destruction of the fiends; and Usta-Ahuremmazdãm (Visp. XXI, 1-5) ? in like manner.
33. Spentâ-mainya (Yas. XLVI) has six stanzas, Yêzi-adâis (Yas. XLVII) twelve stanzas, Ad-màyavâ (Yas. XLVIII) twelve stanzas, and Kad-môiurvâ (Yas. XLIX) eleven stanzas. 34. The Spentamainyà Gâtha is a Gatha of four chapters, and
? Or, it may be, through his own intellect (khvêsak hûsh),' or merely another mode of writing khveskârîh, industry.'
Considering each of the stanzas as an offering to, or propitiation of, (Av. usefriti) the angels.
s See Chap. X, 25. • Those detailed in $ 27-30.
o Which stanza has only four lines. Pahl. gâs means both the whole hymn and also each line of the hymn.
• The first stanza of the Ustavaiti Gatha, which is recited twice, both in its proper place and at the end of each chapter of that Gâtha (see $ 12, note).
? Visp. XXI follows Yas. XLV in the full Parsi ritual, and is recited twice.
. Those detailed in $ 33.
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