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[that is, it is necessary for thee to give Vistasp? unto me as assistance.] O Adharmazd! [the arrival of] that one [is according to my wish], who is he according to the wish of every one, (that Sôshåns that shall be necessary for every one, so that they may thereby convey away their misery, the misery it is possible he should convey away from every one.] *
"" Let us be guarded from the most afflicting one shere, and apart from the sinners), O Adharmazd and Spendarmadt! (that is, keep us away from the harm of the evil spirit !] Perish, thou demon fiend ! [as I speak in front of thee.] Perish, thou race of the demons! [that is, their race is from that place.] Perish, thou work transformed by the demons (for uselessness]! Perish, thou work produced by the demons [heretofore and hereafter this produced without the sacred beings, and produced by them (the demons) even for uselessness). Perish utterly, thou fiend ! [that is, mayst thou become invisible !) Perish utterly, thou fiend! [that is, rush away from here, and mayst thou become invisible on any path!] Perish utterly and apart, thou fiend! (that is, stand not again on any path!] Thou shalt perish again to the north! (the path was mentioned thus : 'Go in the direction of the north !'] do not destroy the material world of righteousness® !"
1 The king in the time of Zaratūst (see Dd. XXXVII, 36).
The last of the future apostles (see Dd. II, 10). . This paragraph is the Pahlavi version of a passage in the Gathas (Yas. XLIII, 16, b-e). • See p. 393, note 2.
From hell, the place of the demons. • It appears from what follows, in $ 120, that the whole of the sprinklings and exorcisms, detailed in $$ 33–118, are to be repeated at each of the first six holes.
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