Mutual Blessings.

1-17. (See Y. XVII, 1-17.) 18-27. (See Y. XXVI, 1-10.) 28. We praise God for Victory, made by the Lord, the victorious blow; and for the Saviours, who smite with victory; and we offer this holy bundle of twigs with its offering and its girdle which is its band, and which is spread with sanctity. And we offer ourselves, our own souls and our own spirits. 29. (See Y. XVII, 19.) 30. (The master speaks:) O thou good servant of the Lord! may that be thine which is better than the good; mayest thou acquire that which is thine own in the offering; mayest thou attain to that reward which the offering-priest has been obtaining, who is far advanced in his good thoughts, and words, and deeds.

31 (The priest speaks:) May that happen to you likewise which is better than the good, and may that not happen which is worse than the evil, and may that likewise not be my lot. 32. As our Lord is excellent, so is our master one who rules from his Righteousness, a creator of mental goodness, and of life's actions done for the Wise Lord, and the Kingdom is God's, which to the poor will offer a nurturer. A blessing is Righteousness, called the Best, etc. We honour the Ahuna-vairya; we honour Righteousness the Best, the most beautiful, the Bountiful Immortal. And we honour the Fshusho-mathra, the by-spoken. And we honour the entire collection of the Praises of the Yasna; yea, the Yasna Praises which were instituted in the world of yore.