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The Zend Avesta, Part III (SBE31), L.H. Mills, tr. [1886], at sacred-texts.com


VISPARAD IV (SP. V) 4.

1. (Yea,) we sacrifice to the thoughts of the mind, and to the good wisdom, and to the good and blessed

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sanctity, and to the good religious knowledge, and to good health (of soul and body). [At their (several) seasons, and with the presence of seasonable circumstances, they are hymned 1.] 2. Confession is to be made for the Kine; we, Zarathustrian Mazdayasnians, celebrate at the sacrificial time for the Myazda-offering, at the time for the Ratufrîti, the prayer for blessings, for the sacrificial worship, homage, propitiation, and praise of the entire creation of the holy (and the clean).


Footnotes

343:4 This section, preceding Y. XI, closed in the B.V.S., seems to me p. 344 to belong properly after Yasna VIII, and the Myazda offering with the Ratufrîti.

344:1 Pâzand.


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