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DÂDISTÂN-I dinik.
arises that advantageousness of his — which owing to that benefit is the benefit of every one else for this advantageous business.
15. And Tistar shall gradually (padmanikiha) seize upon the water to distribute it liberally, assiduously a similitude of that which a learned ruler said, in extolling a wise high-priest, that, 'just as the wind draws the up-flying water from rivers and springs and from seas, Tistar, through his own liberality, bestows the prepared apportionments of the whole production for the advantage of the creatures by the will of the sacred beings, and makes it rain. 16. And through that which he shall purposely seize to distribute suitably he distributes the water purified, he moistens the pleasant existences of animals and plants and spares ? the polluted, he provides for the thirsty 3, he causes harm to the dye-like bloody one, and he makes the world thrive. 17. When that wide-spread liberality of his, the production of rain, is from the pure, healing water which he shall thus seize gradually and with just apportionment, and when through that acquiring of water-seizings the rivers, springs, and other existences (shavandagânð) are well-expanding, and even the diminution which is owing to the wasting (airikhtagih) of rivers and springs does not occur thereby, it is thus, too, the lordly, by a law (dâdo) moderate and varied—if the regulation (gan) is to reach away from the region-are as much contributing, as
* Reading sûdakih instead of î yadakih, which is unity.' M14 has na dakth, 'benefit.'
• Or 'forgives' (bakhshe do). * M14 and J have he causes the thirsty to drink.'
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