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in him—and he is an accomplisher of the stipulations of Vohůman', good thoughts, good words, and good deeds, and a comprisal of every goodness in the propitiation of the righteous. 4. About 2 . .
CHAPTER XXXVII. Varstmânsar Nask.
. produced the dawn and noontide (aush rêpisp)* e. I fashioned sovereignty and the desired complete mindfulness together, and produced, for more advantageous disclosure, a son (bermanar-ae) for a father ; the disclosure that discloses a male and the impregnation of a female, and in that disclosure a son was produced by me for the father, O Zaratûst!' f. So the evil spirit observed, and he called upwards from the abyss thus: O beneficent spirit! thou art the creator of all creatures, but I will make all thy creatures old, O beneficent spirit !
See Pahl. Yas. XLII, 2 d. ? Another folio of B is here lost, containing the end of this chapter and the beginning of the next. The passage missing was equivalent to about 100 lines of this translation, of which perhaps three-fourths belonged to this chapter and one-fourth to the next.
* See Pahl. Yas. XLIII, 5d: aQshahinð va-rapíspînõ= Av. ushau arem-pithwa.
* Ibid. 7 b.
o Ibid. 7 c. The verbal causative stem vindin, 'cause to find, or obtain, disclose,' is twice spelt without its first letter, out of four occurrences; and bermanar is hybrid Zvâris for posar, in which berman=pus.
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