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embellished !, Ardavahist is more brilliant?, Shatvairô is more exalted 5, Spendarmad is more fruitful“, Horvadad is moister 5, Amerôdad is fatter 6. 2. Din-pa-åtaró is just like Adharmazd?, Åtarô is hotter, Åvân is more goldeno, Khûr is more observant 10, Mâh is more protective 11, Tir is more liberal, Gôs is swifter 12. 3. Din 13-pa-Mitrô is just like Adharmazd, Mitrô is more judicial, Srôsh is more vigorous, Rashn is more just, Fravardin is more powerful, Vâhrâm is more victorious, Râm is more pleasing, Vad is more fragrant. 4. Din-pa-Dînô is just like Adharmazd, Dinô is more valuable, Ard 14 is more beautiful, Åstâd is purer, Åsmân is more lofty, Zamyâd is more conclusive, Mâraspend is more
thirty angels and archangels, are extant; one in M6, which has lost $$ 3-5, and the other in a very old MS. in the library of the high-priest of the Parsis at Bombay. This latter, being complete, is here taken as the text, while the variations of M6, which occur in nearly every epithet, are given in the notes. Which version is the oldest can hardly be ascertained with certainty from the state of the MSS. M6 omits this opening benediction.
1 M6 has more nimble.' * M6 has more discriminative.' 3 M6 has more active.' • M6 has more complete.' 6 M6 has 'fatter.' 6 M6 has more fruitful.' ? M6 has .Dînô is more desirous.' * M6 has more heating.'
• Referring perhaps to the golden channels (Bund. XIII, 4, 5) through which the water of Arêdvîvsûr (a title of the angel Avân, * waters ') is supposed to flow. M6 has more glittering.'
10 M6 has more embellished.' 11 M6 has var pântar, the meaning of which is uncertain. 12 M6 has more listening.' 15 The version in M6 ends here; the next folio being lost. 11 The same as Arshisang (see Bund. XXII, 4).
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