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hunger and thirst is just as it says, that by only a single ration one becomes satisfied for three nights, and whoever eats a leg of mutton has plenty for himself for three days and nights. 3. The diminution of decay and extension (vêshih) of life, the increase of humility and peace, and the perfection of liberality and enjoyment in the world.
4. Like this which revelation states, that, when the first ten winters in the last millennium pass away, the Mazda-worshippers then make enquiry together thus : 'Are we really more hairy-headed (sar-varsik-tar) than occurred before, owing to the wellyielding cattle, so that food and clothing are less necessary for us? Has affection come to us more completely, owing to those cattle, than it was ours before? Have we grown up less deteriorated in the hair, by old age, than those grown up before? Are the thoughts, words, and deeds of our women and children more instructed than they were before ? 5. And has this thing occurred, that he is classed as disqualified who in training a child has become quite retrogressive (pas-Uruzd), and is his penalty arranged? Does the fiend think of the Karap class, and are they utterly destroyed by her through those whose thoughts are most evil, devoid of righteousness, and devoid of a liking for righteousness? 6. Near here, in the disturbance of the existences, does that happen as heard by us from the ancients, when listening to the true proclaimers of the Mazdaworshippers ? And now, even when our numbers are so greatly maintaining this dispensation, do we sanctify (aharâyinem) righteousness (that is, do we perform duty and good works) more vociferously and more strenuously?'
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