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YAST XXII.
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42. Here the fiendish Bashyāsta, the long-handed, rushes from the region of the north, from the regions of the north, speaking thus, lying thus: 'Sleep on, O men! Sleep on, O sinners! Sleep on and live in sin.'
supplied from the Pahlavi translation; the words in brackets refer to Zend texts lost to us :
*Then he flaps his wings and lifts up his voice, saying: “Arise, O menl [and also women, grown-up people, and children, &c. .... Put on well your girdle and shirt, wash your hands, put your girdle around your body, go and give food to the cattle and recite aloud the five holy Gâthas of Spitama Zarathustra."]
Here the fiendish Bushyāsta ... :' (see the text). Then the Pahlavi translation has : Never care for the three excellent things, good thoughts, good words, good deeds' (cf. Vend. XVIII, 25).
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