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FRAGMENTS OF THE NASKS.
105. May the blessed one have Paradise as his portion!
106. As to the righteous man who has come to this banquet', who has shared this banquet, may he for each step: get nearer to the bright Paradise, the all-happy Garothmân, by twelve hundred steps!
107. When he is approaching it, may his merits increase!
108. When he is leaving it, may his sin be uprooted!
109. May righteousness and goodness prevails! 110. May his soul enter the Garôthmân! III. I am one of the righteous'.
Atha gamyâd :-May it happen according to this wish of mine !
Humatanãmo. All the good thoughts, good words, and good deeds, done or to be done, here or elsewhere, we seize upon and we transmit them?, that we may be in the number of the righteous.
* To this myazd, or religious banquet. The following formulas are those found at the end of the Afrin Gâhânbår.
. For each of his steps to this banquet.
: May the good prevail over the evil in his account, so that he may be saved (see above, p. 270).
• Ashố; I am one of the blessed, I am saved. * Yasna LXVIII, 19. Yasna LXVIII, 20 (XXXV, 2).
? We teach them; the good deeds of our disciples are accounted ours (Dinkart IX, 57, 1).
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