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CHAPTER XXI, 7-XXII, 7.
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CHAPTER XXII1.
1. May Aûharmazd give thee the august rank and throne of a champion 2!
2. May Vohuman give thee wisdom! may the benefit of knowing Vohumans be good thought, and mayest thou be acting well, that is, saving the soul!
3. May Ardavahist, the beautiful, give thee understanding and intellect!
4. May Shatvairô grant thee wealth from every generous one!
5. May Spendarmad grant thee praise through the seed of thy body! may she give thee as wife a woman from the race of the great!
6. May Horvadad grant thee plenty and prosperity!
7. May Amerôdad grant thee herds of four-footed beasts!
summer, diminishing to 2 hours at the autumnal equinox, and then remaining very nearly constant till the vernal equinox.
1 These last two chapters are found written upon some folios which have been added to the beginning of M6; but, though not belonging to that MS. originally, they are still very old. The first of these two chapters has not been found elsewhere; it is an elaborate benediction, in which the writer calls down, upon some one, a series of blessings from each of the thirty archangels and angels whose names are given to the days of the Parsi month in the order in which they here stand (compare the same names in Bund. XXVII, 24).
The meaning of the word pâdrôg or pâdrang (which occurs also in §§ 12, 26, and appears to be a title) may be guessed from the following passage in the Yâdkâr-i Zarîrân, or Vistâsp-shâhnâmak: Pavan har razm va pâdrazm-i lak pîrôg va vêh pâdrôg sem yâîtyûnî-ae, 'in every attack and counter-attack of thine mayest thou bring away the title of conqueror and good champion!'
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