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VII. SUNDRY FRAGMENTS.
Do not afflict, O Zarathustra! either Pourushaspa', or Dughdhava 2, or thy teachers.
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Kathrâyâim âthraiẩm (Shâyast lâ-Shâyast XIII,
17).
The manifestation by the fire 3.
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Anaomo mananghê kya visâi kva parô1?
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This is an Avestâ-i mâr zadan (or text to be recited while killing a serpent). If one recite it while killing a serpent, one gathers thereby the same merit as if one had killed a heretic' (Gr. Ravâyat, p. 383). The text is too corrupt to allow of any translation, but it contains allusions to Varshna, son of Hanghaurvaungh, son of Gâmâspa, whose Fravashi is invoked in the Frôhars Yast, § 104, to withstand the evil Pairikas, and who, from the present formula, appears to have been a dragon-destroyer.
Varshnahê thwãm anghrô Urushnôis Gâmâspanahê puthrahê puthrem apaitighni amâ yim davata Ashis apathatô paitîm âpem dãmnsâvyẩm nôid hvâzâtô nôid zâniti nôid amau arenau hvâis âteê yaza agithô ânem sâyaêti yvaêka yavaêtâtaêka. Ashem vohû.
1 His father.
2 His mother.
The manifestation of the truth by the fire-ordeal.
A quotation in the Kîm-î gâsân 6 (West, Pahlavi Texts, I, 356, with the various readings in note 1).
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