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CHAPTER IX, 3-10.
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of poverty among mankind, just like what revelation mentions thus: 'Even so he, O Zaratůst! though he be more unfortunate than he who is accepting from him, is like the creator whose bounty of permanent liberality does thus, in the embodied existence, remain in his dwelling.
7. And this, too, it says, namely: When that winter passes away, of which it is said that it is boisterous and destructive, then a wild beast, black and wide-travelling, walks up to the Mazda-worshippers, and thus it thinks, that they who worship Mazda will therefore not finally hate us more than him who is their own progeny, the son whom they thus bring up as a Mazda-worshipper here below, in fondness and freedom from malice towards well. yielding cattle.
8. 'Then Ashavahistò calls out to the Mazdaworshippers from the upper region, and thus he speaks : “You are for the worship of Mazda; let no one of you become such a slaughterer of cattle as the slaughterers you have been before. 9. Recommend increase in gifts, recommend neighbourliness in person; are you worshipping Mazda ? do you slaughter cattle ? do you slaughter those of them which give you assistance, which speak to you thus :
On account of your helpfulness one tells you that you are worshipping Mazda and you may eat?' I am in neighbourliness before that, until the time when you exclaim : Mine are the serpent and toad.'
10.““And you recommend increase, you recommend neighbourliness, and the Mazda-worshippers slaughter cattle, even those of them who give them
1 The Pahlavi version of Av. stakhrahê meretô zaya' in Westerg. Frag. VIII, 2,
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