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YASTS AND SÎRÔZAHS.
For his brightness and glory, I will offer unto him a sacrifice worth being heard ....
XIII. 32. We sacrifice unto Verethraghna, made by Ahura, who makes virility, who makes death, who makes resurrection, who possesses peace, who has a free way.
Unto him did the holy Zarathustra sacrifice, [asking] for victorious thinking, victorious speaking, victorious doing, victorious addressing, and victorious answering.
33. Verethraghna, made by Ahura, gave him the fountains of virility, the strength of the arms, the health of the whole body, the sturdiness of the whole body, and the eye-sight of the vulture with a golden collar?, that, from as far as nine districts, can perceive a piece of flesh not thicker than the fist, giving just as much light as a needle gives, as the point of a needle gives 2.
For his brightness and glory, I will offer unto him a sacrifice worth being heard ....
XIV. 34. We sacrifice unto Verethraghna, made by Ahura.
Zarathustra asked Ahura Mazda : Ahura Mazda, most beneficent Spirit, Maker of the material world, thou Holy One!
horse, they say that if, in a dark night, a single hair occurs on the ground, he sees it' (tr. West).
1 Possibly the Gypaetus, the vautour doré.
* Even from his highest flight, he (the vulture) sees when flesh the size of a fist is on the ground' (Bund. XIX, 31; tr. West). Cf. Horapollo (I, 11).
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