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O thou, my perishable body, think good thoughts with thy mind!
26. Aad mãm tanvô ithyêganguhaiti hizva mraidhi
hûkhtem.
FRAGMENTS OF THE NASKS.
O thou, my perishable body, speak good words with thy tongue!
27. Åad mam tanvô ithyêganguhaiti zastaêibya vareza hvarestem shyaothanem.
O thou, my perishable body, do good deeds with thy hands!
28. Mã mãm tanvô ithyêganguhaiti angrai vairê fraspayôis yim khrvantem âithivantem, yim daêvim afraderesavantem frâkerentad angrô mainyus pôurumahrkô bunem angheus temanghahê yad ereghatô daosanghahê.
O thou, my perishable body, do not throw me down into the Var of Angra Mainyu1, terrible, dreadful, (frightful), dark, undiscernible (for the darkness there is so dense that it can be grasped with the hand 2), which Ganâ Mainyu fabricated at the bottom of the dark world of endless hell.
29. There is a passage in which Hôrmazd says to Zarathustra:
30. I created, O Spitama Zarathustra! the stars, the moon, the sun, and the red burning fire, the dogs, the birds, and the five kinds of animals 3; but, better and greater than all, I created the righteous man who has truly received from me the Praise of Asha in the good Religion.
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31. But without any reason men adhere to that
1 Hell. * See above, p. 66, note 5. Cf. Ardâ Vîrâf XVIII. See Yt. XIII, 10 and note.
The recitation of the Ashem Vohû, the epitome of religion.
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