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21 (70). Take some gômêz from a bull ungelded and such as the law requires it.
Take the man who is to be cleansed 3 to the field made by Ahura 4, and the man that is to cleanse him shall draw the furrows.
22 (73). ‘He shall recite a hundred Ashem vohu: “Holiness is the best of all good. Happy, happy the man who is holy with perfect holiness!”
‘He shall chant two hundred Ahuna-Vairya: “The will of the Lord is the law of holiness; the riches of Vohu-manô shall be given to him who works in this world for Mazda, and wields according to the will of Ahura the power he gave to him to relieve the poor.”
‘He shall wash Vohu-manô four times with the gômêz from the ox, and twice with the water made by Mazda 6.
23 (76). ‘Thus Vohu-manô shall be made clean, and clean shall be the man. Then he shall take up Vohu-manô 1 with his left arm and his right, with his right arm and his left: and thou shalt lay down Vohu-manô under the mighty structure of the bright heavens, by the light of the stars made by the gods, until nine nights have passed away.
24 (80). ‘When nine nights have passed away, thou shalt bring libations unto the fire, thou shalt bring hard wood unto the fire, thou shalt bring incense of Vohu-gaona unto the fire, and thou shalt perfume Vohu-manô therewith.
25 (82). ‘Thus shall Vohu-manô become clean, thus shall the man be clean 3: he shall take up Vohu-manô with the right arm and the left, with the left arm and the right, and Vohu-manô 4 shall say aloud: “Glory be to Ahura Mazda! Glory be to the Amesha-Spentas! Glory be to all the other holy beings.”’
28 (90). When the man is dead, when his time is over, then the hellish, evil-doing Daêvas assail him; and when the third night is gone, when the dawn appears and brightens up, and makes Mithra, the god with beautiful weapons, reach the all-happy mountains, and the sun is rising.
29 (94). ‘Then the fiend, named Vîzaresha, carries off in bonds 2 the souls of the wicked Daêva-worshippers who live in sin. The soul enters the way made by Time, and open both to the wicked and to the righteous. At the head of the Kinvad bridge, the holy bridge made by Mazda 3, they ask for their spirits and souls the reward for the worldly goods which they gave away here below 1.
30 (98) ‘Then comes the well-shapen, strong and tall formed maid 2, with the dogs at her sides 3, one who can distinguish 4, who is graceful 5, who does what she wants, and is of high understanding.
‘She makes the soul of the righteous one go up above the Hara-berezati 6; above the Kinvad bridge she places it in the presence of the heavenly gods themselves.
31 (102). ‘Up rises Vohu-manô 7 from his golden seat: Vohu-manô exclaims: “How hast thou come to us, thou holy one, from that decaying world into this undecaying one 8?”
32 (105). ‘Gladly pass the souls of the righteous to the golden seat of Ahura Mazda, to the golden seat of the Amesha-Spentas, to the Garô-nmânem 1, the abode of Ahura Mazda, the abode of the Amesha-Spentas, the abode of all the other holy beings.
33 (108). ‘As to the godly man that has been cleansed 2, the wicked evil-doing Daêvas tremble in the perfume of his soul after death, as a sheep does on which a wolf is falling 3.
34 (110). ‘The souls of the righteous are gathered together there: Nairyô-sangha 4 is with them; a friend of Ahura Mazda is Nairyô-sangha.
Do you invoke this world of Ahura Mazda?
35 (114). I invoke:
- the holy world, made by Ahura Mazda
- the earth made by Ahura, the water made by Mazda, the holy trees
- the sea Vouru-kasha
- the shining sky
- the eternal and sovereign luminous space
- 36 (120) the bright, all glorious, blissful abode of the holy ones
- the Garô-nmânem, the abode of Ahura Mazda, the abode invoke of the Amesha-Spentas, the abode of all the other holy beings
- the sovereign place of eternal weal 1, and the Kinvad bridge made by Mazda
- 37 (123) the good Saoka 2, whose looks go far and wide
- the mighty Fravashis 3 of the righteous
- the whole creation of weal
- Verethraghna 4, made by Ahura, who, wears the glory made by Mazda
- Tistrya, the bright and glorious star, in the shape of a golden-horned bull
- 38 (127) the holy, beneficent Gâthas 7, who rule over the ratus
- the Ahunavaiti Gâtha
- the Ustavaiti Gâtha
- the Spenta-mainyu Gâtha
- the Vohu-khshathra Gâtha
- the Vahistôisti Gâtha
- 39 (129). the Karshvares of Arzahê and Savahê
- the Karshvares of Fradadhafshu and Vidadhafshu
- the Karshvares of Vourubaresti and Vouruzaresti
- the bright Hvaniratha
- the bright, glorious Haêtumant
- the good Ashi
- the good Kisti
- the most right Kista
- the glory of the Aryan regions
- the glory of the bright Yima, the great shepherd
40 (133). ‘Let him be worshipped with sacrifice, let him be gladdened, gratified, and satisfied, the holy Sraosha, the tall-formed, fiend-smiting, holy Sraosha 8.
‘Bring libations unto the Fire, bring hard wood unto the Fire, bring incense of Vohu-gaona unto the Fire.
‘Offer up the sacrifice to the Vâzista fire, which smites the fiend Spengaghra 1: bring unto it the cooked meat and the offerings of boiling milk 2.
41 (137). ‘Offer up the sacrifice to the holy Sraosha, that the holy Sraosha may smite down the fiend Kunda 3, who is drunken without drinking. He will fall upon the men of the Drug, the slothful ones 4, the wicked, Daêva-worshippers, who live in sin.
42 5. ‘I invoke:
- the Kara fish, who lives beneath waters in the bottom of the deep lakes
- the ancient and sovereign Merezu 7, the greatest seat of battle in the creation of the two spirits
- the 7 bright Sravah 9 with their sons and their flocks
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- ‘They run about to and fro, their minds waver to and fro, Angra Mainyu the deadly, the Daêva of the Daêvas;
Indra the Daêva, Sâuru the Daêva, Naunghaithya the Daêva, Taurvi and Zairi, Aêshma of the wounding spear, Akatasha the Daêva, Zaurva, baneful to the fathers, Bûiti the Daêva 5, Driwi 6 the Daêva, Daiwi 7 the Daêva, Kasvi 8 the Daêva, Paitisha 9 the most Daêva-like amongst the Daêvas.
44 (140). ‘And he said, the guileful, the evildoing Daêva, Angra Mainyu the deadly: “What! let the wicked, evil-doing Daêvas gather together at the head of Arezûra 10.”
45 (141). ‘They rush, they run away, the wicked, evil-doing Daêvas; they run away with shouts, the wicked, evil-doing Daêvas; they run away casting the evil eye, the wicked, evil-doing Daêvas: “Let us gather together at the head of Arezûra!
46 (143). ‘“For he is just born the holy Zarathustra, in the house of Pourushaspa. How can we procure his death? He is the stroke that fells the fiends: he is a counter-fiend to the fiends; he is a Drug to the Drug. Down are the Daêva-worshippers, the Nasu made by the Daêva, the false-speaking Lie!”
47 (147). ‘They run away, they rush away, the wicked, evil-doing Daêvas, into the depths of the dark, horrid world of hell.
‘Ashem vohu: Holiness is the best of all good.’
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