men who lie unto the Friend, and by the fiendish killers of faithful men.

46 Helping and guarding, guarding behind and guarding in front, God the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, proves an undeceivable watcher for the man to whom He comes to help with all the strength of his soul; He of the ten thousand watchers, the powerful, the all-knowing, the Undeceivable.

For His brightness and glory, I will offer Him devotion worth being heard ....

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47 We offer devotion to God the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake;

Of high renown and of old age, whom wide-hoofed horses carry, as it were, against havocking hosts, against enemies coming in battle array, in the strife of conflicting nations.

48 And when He drives along towards the havocking hosts, towards the enemies coming in battle array, in the strife of the conflicting nations, then He binds the hands of those who have lied unto the Friend, He confounds their eyesight, He takes the hearing from their ears; they can no longer move their feet; they can no longer withstand those people, those foes, when God, the Lord of wide pastures, bears them ill-will.

For His brightness and glory, I will offer Him devotion worth being heard ....

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49 We offer devotion to God the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake;

50 For whom the Maker, God the Wise Lord, has built up a dwelling on the Hara Berezaiti, the bright mountain around which the many stars revolve, where come neither night nor darkness, no cold wind and no hot wind, no deathful sickness, no uncleanness made by the evil ones, and the clouds cannot reach up unto the Haraiti Bareza;

51 A dwelling that all the holy angels, in one accord with the sun, made for Him in the fulness of faith of a devoted heart, and He surveys the whole of the material world from the Haraiti Bareza.

52 And when there rushes a wicked worker of evil, swiftly, with a swift step, God the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, goes forth as one who yokes his horses to his chariot, together with the holy, powerful angel Sraosha and the angel Nairyo-sangha, who strikes a blow that smites the army, that smites the strength of the malicious.

For His brightness and glory, I will offer Him devotion worth being heard ....

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53 We offer devotion to God the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake;

54 Who, with hands lifted up, ever cries unto the Wise Lord, saying: "I am the kind keeper of all creatures, I am the kind maintainer of all creatures; yet men do not call upon Me by My own name, as they call upon other, false gods by their names.

55 "If men would call upon Me by My own name, with devotion, then I would come to the faithful at the appointed time; I would come in the appointed time of My beautiful, immortal life."

56 But the pious man, holding his offerings in his hands, does call upon Thee by Thy own name, and with the proper words.

With devotion, calling Thee by Thy own name, with the proper words will I bring Thee my offerings, O Powerful One!

With devotion, calling Thee by Thy own name, with the proper words will I bring Thee my offerings, O Most Beneficent!

With devotion, calling Thee by Thy own name, with the proper words will I bring Thee my offerings, O Thou Undeceivable!

57 Listen unto our devotion, O Friend! Be pleased with our devotion! Accept our offerings! Accept them as they have been consecrated for Thy sake! Gather them together with love and lay them in the Garden of Paradise!

58 Grant us these boons which we beg of Thee, O Powerful One, in accordance with the words of revelation, namely, riches, strength, and victory, good conscience and bliss, good fame and a good soul; wisdom and the knowledge that gives happiness, the victorious strength given by the Wise Lord, the crushing ascendancy of Righteousness, and communion with the Holy Word.

59 Grant that we, in a good spirit and high spirit, exalted in joy and a good spirit, may smite all our foes; that we, in a good spirit and high spirit, exalted in joy and a good spirit, may smite all our enemies; that we, in a good spirit and high spirit, exalted in joy and a good spirit, may smite all the malice of the evil spirits and of men, of the wicked sorcerers and sorceresses, of the oppressors, the blind, and the deaf.

For His brightness and glory, I will offer Him devotion worth being heard ....

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60 We offer devotion to God the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake;

Whose renown is good, whose glory is good; who has boons to give at His will, who has pasture-fields to give at His will; harmless to the tiller of the ground, .... beneficent; He of the ten thousand watchers, the powerful, the all-knowing, the Undeceivable.

For His brightness and glory, I will offer Him devotion worth being heard ....

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61 We offer devotion to God the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake;

Firm, a watcher fully awake; valiant, a chief in assemblies; making the waters flow forward; listening to appeals; making the waters run and the plants grow up; ruling over the regions of the earth; delivering; happy; undeceivable; endowed with many senses; wise;

62 Who gives neither strength nor vigour to him who has lied unto the Friend; who gives neither glory nor any boon to him who has lied unto the Friend.

63 Thou takest away the strength from their arms, being angry and all-powerful; Thou takest the swiftness from their feet, the eyesight from their eyes, the hearing from their ears.

Not the wound of the well-sharpened spear or of the flying arrow reaches that man to whom God the Friend comes for help with all the strength of his soul; He of the ten thousand watchers, the powerful, the all-knowing, the Undeceivable.

For His brightness and glory, I will offer Him devotion worth being heard ....

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64 We offer devotion to God the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake;

Who takes possession of the beautiful, wide-expanding law, greatly and powerfully, and whose gaze looks over all the seven regions of the earth;

65 Who is swift amongst the swift, liberal amongst the liberal, strong amongst the strong, a chief of assembly amongst the chiefs of assemblies; increase-giving, fatness-giving, cattle-giving, sovereignty-giving, son-giving, cheerfulness-giving, and bliss-giving.

66 With Him proceed the angel of Righteous Fortune and the angel of Plenty on her light chariot, awesome Manly Courage, awesome kingly Glory, awesome sovereign Sky, the awesome cursing thought of the wise, the awesome guardian spirits of the faithful, and he who keeps united together the many faithful worshippers of the Wise Lord.

For His brightness and glory, I will offer Him devotion worth being heard ....

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67 We offer devotion to God the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake;

Whose might drives along, as on a high-wheeled chariot made of a heavenly substance, from the region of Arezahi to the bright region of Xvaniratha; accompanied by the wheel of sovereignty, the Glory made by the Wise Lord, and the Victory made by God;

68 Whose chariot is embraced by the great angel of Righteous Fortune; to whom the Law of the Wise Lord opens a way, that He may go easily; whom four heavenly steeds, white, shining, seen afar, beneficent, endowed with knowledge, swiftly carry along the heavenly space, while the cursing thought of the wise pushes it forward;

69 From whom all the demons unseen and the fiends flee away in fear. Oh! may we never fall across the rush of the angry Lord who goes and rushes from a thousand sides against His foe; He of the ten thousand watchers, the powerful, the all-knowing, the Undeceivable.

For His brightness and glory, I will offer Him devotion worth being heard ....

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70 We offer devotion to God the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake;

Before whom Verethraghna, the angel of victory made by God, runs opposing the foes, in the shape, as it were, of a boar, a sharp-toothed he-boar, a sharp-jawed boar, that kills at one stroke, pursuing, wrathful, with a dripping face; strong, with iron feet, iron fore-paws, iron weapons, an iron tail, and iron jaws;

71 Who, eagerly clinging to the fleeing foe, along with Manly Courage, smites the foe in battle, and does not think he has smitten him, nor does he consider it a blow till he has smitten away the marrow and the column of life, the marrow and the spring of existence.

72 He cuts all the limbs to pieces, and mingles, together with the earth, the bones, hair, brains, and blood of the men who have lied unto the Friend.

For His brightness and glory, we offer Him devotion worth being heard ....

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73 We offer devotion to God the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake;

Who, with hands lifted up, rejoicing, cries out, speaking thus:

74 "O Wise Lord, most beneficent Spirit! Maker of the material world, Thou Holy One!

"If men would call upon Me by My own name, with devotion, as they call upon the other, false gods by their names, then I should come to the faithful at the appointed time; I should come in the appointed time of My beautiful, immortal life.

75 "May we keep our field; may we never be exiles from our field, exiles from our house, exiles from our borough, exiles from our town, exiles from our country.

76 "Thou dashest in pieces the malice of the malicious, the malice of the men of malice: dash Thou in pieces the killers of faithful men!

"Thou hast good horses, Thou hast a good chariot: Thou art bringing help at every appeal, and art powerful.

77 "I will pray unto Thee for help, with many consecrations, with good consecrations of offerings; with many gifts, with good gifts for Thy sake, that we, abiding in Thy protection, may long inhabit a good abode, full of all the riches that can be wished for.

78 "Thou keepest those nations that tender a good worship to God, the Friend, Lord of wide pastures; Thou dashest in pieces those that delight in havoc. Unto Thee will I pray for help: may He come to us for help, the awesome, most powerful, the worshipful and praiseworthy, the glorious Lord of nations."

For His brightness and glory, I will offer Him devotion worth being heard ....

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79 We offer devotion to God the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake;

Who made a dwelling for the angel of Truth and to whom that angel gave all his soul for long friendship;

80 Thou art a keeper and protector of the dwelling of those who lie not: Thou art the maintainer of those who lie not. With Thee has Verethraghna, made by God, contracted the best of all friendships, and thus it is how so many men who have lied unto the Friend, even privily, lie smitten down on the ground.

For His brightness and glory, I will offer Him devotion worth being heard ....

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81 We offer devotion to God the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake;

Who made a dwelling for the angel of Truth, and to whom that angel gave all his soul for long friendship;

82 To whom God the Wise Lord gave a thousand senses and ten thousand eyes to see. With those eyes and those senses, He watches the man who injures the covenant, the man who lies. Through those eyes and those senses, He is undeceivable; He of the ten thousand watchers, the powerful, the all-knowing, the Undeceivable.

For His brightness and glory, I will offer Him devotion worth being heard ....

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83 We offer devotion to God the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake;

Whom the lord of the country invokes for help, with hands uplifted;

Whom the lord of the town invokes for help, with hands uplifted;

84 Whom the lord of the borough invokes for help, with hands uplifted;

Whom the master of the house invokes for help, with hands uplifted;

Whom the one in danger of death invokes for help, with hands uplifted;

Whom the poor man, who follows the good law, when wronged and deprived of his rights, invokes for help, with hands uplifted.

85 The voice of his wailing reaches up to the sky, it goes over the earth all around, it goes over the seven regions, whether he utters his prayer in a low tone of voice or aloud.

86 The cow driven astray invokes Him for help, longing for the stables:

"When will the Lord of wide pastures bring us back, and make us reach the stables? When will He turn us back to the right way from the den of the Lie where we were driven?"

87 And to him with whom God, the Lord of wide pastures, has been satisfied, He comes with help; and of him with whom He has been offended, He crushes down the house, the borough, the town, the province, the country.

For His brightness and glory, I will offer Him devotion worth being heard ....

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88 We offer devotion to God the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake;

To whom the enlivening, healing, fair, golden-eyed righteous servant offered up worship on the highest of the heights, on the Haraiti Bareza, the undefiled to One undefiled, with undefiled twigs, undefiled offerings, and undefiled words;

89 Whom the holy Wise Lord has established as a priest, quick in performing the devotion and loud in song. He performed the devotion with a loud voice, as a priest quick in devotion and loud in song, a priest to the Wise Lord, a priest to the holy angels. His voice reached up to the sky, went over the earth all around, went over the seven regions.

90 Who first lifted up the healing plant in a mortar inlaid with stars and made of a heavenly substance. The Wise Lord loved him, the holy angels loved him, for the well-shapen body of him whom the swift-horsed sun awakes for prayer from afar.

91 Hail to God the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, who has a thousand ears and ten thousand eyes! Thou art worthy of worship and prayer: mayest Thou have worship and prayer in the houses of men! Hail to the man who shall offer Thee devotion, with the holy wood in his hand, the twigs in his hand, the holy meat in his hand, the holy mortar in his hand, with his hands well-washed, with the mortar well-washed, with the bundles of twigs tied up, the healing plant uplifted, and the prayer of the Will of the Lord sung through.

92 The holy Wise Lord confessed that religion, and so did the Good Mind, so did Righteousness, so did the Kingdom, so did Devout Humility, so did Wholeness and Immortality; and all the holy angels longed for and confessed his religion. The kind Lord conferred upon him the mastership of the world; and so did they who saw Thee amongst all creatures the right lord and master of the world, the best cleanser of these creatures.

93 So mayest Thou in both worlds, mayest Thou keep us in both worlds, O Friend, Lord of wide pastures! both in this material world and in the world of the spirit, from the fiend of Death, from the fiend of Wrath, from the fiendish hordes that lift up the spear of havoc, and from the onsets of Wrath, wherein the evil-doing Wrath rushes along with the demon of destruction, made by the evil ones.

94 So mayest Thou, O Friend, Lord of wide pastures! give swiftness to our teams, strength to our own bodies, and that we may watch with full success those who hate us, smite down our foes, and destroy at one stroke our adversaries, our enemies and those who hate us.

For His brightness and glory, I will offer Him devotion worth being heard ....

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95 We offer devotion to God the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake;

Whose watch goes over the earth, all her breadth over, after the setting of the sun, touches both ends of this wide, round earth, whose ends lie afar, and surveys everything that is between the earth and the heavens,

96 Swinging in His hands, as it were, a club with a hundred knots, a hundred edges, that rushes forwards and fells men down; a club cast out of red brass, of strong, golden brass; the strongest of all weapons, the most victorious of all weapons;

97 From whom Satan, who is all death, flees away in fear; from whom Wrath, the evil-doing, flees away in fear; from whom the long-handed Bushyasta flees away in fear; from whom all the demons unseen and the fiends flee away in fear.

98 Oh! may we never fall across the rush of God the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, when in anger! May the Lord of wide pastures never smite us in His anger; He who stands up upon this earth as the strongest, the most valiant, the most energetic, the swiftest, the most fiend-smiting, He, the Friend, Lord of wide pastures.

For His brightness and glory, I will offer Him devotion worth being heard ....

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99 We offer devotion to God the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake;

From whom all the demons unseen and the fiends flee away in fear.

The Lord of nations, the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, drives forward at the right-hand side of this wide, round earth, whose ends lie afar.

100 At His right hand drives the good, holy angel Sraosha; at His left hand drives the tall and strong angel of Truth; on all sides around Him drive the waters, the plants, and the guardian spirits of the faithful.

101 In His might, He ever brings to them falcon-feathered arrows, and, when driving, He Himself comes there, where are nations enemy to the Friend; first and foremost, He strikes blows with His club on the horse and his rider; He throws fear and fright upon the horse and his rider.

For His brightness and glory, I will offer Him devotion worth being heard ....

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102 We offer devotion to God the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake;

The warrior of the white horse, of the sharp spear, the long spear, the quick arrows; foreseeing and clever;

103 Whom God the Wise Lord has established to maintain and look over all this moving world, and who maintains and looks over all this moving world; who, never sleeping, wakefully guards the creation of the Lord; who, never sleeping, wakefully maintains the creation of the Lord.

For His brightness and glory, I will offer Him devotion worth being heard ....

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104 We offer devotion to God the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake;

Whose long arms, strong with His strength, encompass what He seizes in the easternmost river and what He beats with the westernmost river, what is by the Sanaka of the Rangha and what is by the boundary of the earth.

105 And Thou, O Friend! encompassing all this around, do Thou reach it, all over, with Thy arms.

The man without glory, led astray from the right way, grieves in his heart; the man without glory thinks thus in himself: "That careless One does not see all the evil that is done, nor all the lies that are told."

106 But I think thus in my heart:

"Should the evil thoughts of the earthly man be a hundred times worse, they would not rise so high as the good thoughts of the Heavenly One;

"Should the evil words of the earthly man be a hundred times worse, they would not rise so high as the good words of the Heavenly One;

"Should the evil deeds of the earthly man be a hundred times worse, they would not rise so high as the good deeds of the Heavenly One;

107 "Should the heavenly wisdom in the earthly man be a hundred times greater, it would not rise so high as the heavenly wisdom in the Heavenly One;

"And thus, should the ears of the earthly man hear a hundred times better, he would not hear so well as the Heavenly One, whose ear hears well, who has a thousand senses, and sees every man that tells a lie."

God stands up in His strength, He drives in the awfulness of royalty, and sends from His eyes beautiful looks that shine from afar, saying:

108 "Who will offer Me devotion? Who will lie unto Me? Who thinks Me worthy of a good offering? Who thinks Me worthy only of a bad offering? To whom shall I, in My might, impart brightness and glory? To whom bodily health? To whom shall I, in My might, impart riches and full weal? Whom shall I bless by raising him a virtuous offspring?

109 "To whom shall I give in return, without his thinking of it, the awesome sovereignty, beautifully arrayed, with many armies, and most perfect; the sovereignty of an all-powerful king, who fells down heads, valiant, smiting, and unsmitten; who orders chastisement to be done and his order is done at once, which he has ordered in his anger?"

O Friend! when Thou art offended and not satisfied, he who offers Thee a good offering soothes Thy mind, and makes Thee satisfied.

110 "To whom shall I, in My might, impart sickness and death? To whom shall I impart poverty and sterility? Of whom shall I at one stroke cut off the offspring?

111 "From whom shall I take away, without his thinking of it, the awesome sovereignty, beautifully arrayed, with many armies, and most perfect; the sovereignty of an all-powerful king, who fells down heads, valiant, smiting, and unsmitten; who orders chastisement to be done and his order is done at once, which he has ordered in his anger."

O Friend! while Thou art satisfied and not angry, he who offers Thee a bad offering moves Thy heart to anger and makes Thee unsatisfied.

For His brightness and glory, I will offer Him devotion worth being heard ....

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112 We offer devotion to God the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake;

A warrior with a silver helm, a golden cuirass, who kills with the poniard, strong, valiant, lord of the borough. Bright are the ways of the Friend, by which He goes towards the country, when, wishing well, He turns its plains and vales to pasture grounds,

113 And then cattle and males come to graze, as many as He wants.

May the Friend and the Wise Lord, the high Names, come to us for help, when the poniard lifts up its voice aloud, when the nostrils of the horses quiver, when the strings of the bows whistle and shoot sharp arrows; then the brood of those whose offerings are hated fall smitten to the ground, with their hair torn off.

114 So mayest Thou, O Friend, Lord of wide pastures! give swiftness to our teams, strength to our own bodies, and that we may watch with full success those who hate us, smite down our foes, and destroy at one stroke our adversaries, our enemies, and those who hate us.

For His brightness and glory, I will offer Him devotion worth being heard ....

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115 We offer devotion to God the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake.

O Friend, Lord of wide pastures! Thou master of the house, of the borough, of the town, of the country, Thou best of the chiefs of the priestly order!

116 The covenant of the Friend is twentyfold between two friends or two relations;

It is thirtyfold between two men of the same group;

It is fortyfold between two partners;

It is fiftyfold between wife and husband;

It is sixtyfold between two pupils of the same master;

It is seventyfold between the pupil and his master;

It is eightyfold between the son-in-law and his father-in-law;

It is ninetyfold between two brothers;

117 It is a hundredfold between the father and the son;

It is a thousandfold between two nations;

It is ten thousandfold when connected with the Law of the Wise Lord, and then he will be every day of victorious strength.

118 May I come unto Thee with a prayer that goes lowly or goes highly! As this sun rises up above the Hara Berezaiti and then fulfils its career, so may I, O Spitama! with a prayer that goes lowly or goes highly, rise up above the will of Satan!

For His brightness and glory, I will offer Him devotion worth being heard ....

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119 We offer devotion to God the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake.

Offer devotion, O Spitama! and order thy pupils to do the same.

Let the worshipper of the Wise Lord give his offering for God's sake with small cattle, with black cattle, with flying birds, gliding forward on wings.

120 To the Friend all the faithful worshippers of the Lord must give strength and energy with offered and proffered gifts of the healing plant, which the priest proffers unto Him and gives for God's sake. Let the faithful man drink of the offerings cleanly prepared, which if he does, if he offers them in devotion to God the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, God will be pleased with him and without anger.

121 Zarathustra asked: "O Wise Lord! how shall the faithful man drink the offerings cleanly prepared, which if he does and he offers them in devotion to God the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, God will be pleased with him and without anger?"

122 God the Wise Lord answered: "Let them wash their bodies three days and three nights; let them undergo thirty strokes for the devotion and prayer to God the Friend, Lord of wide pastures. Let them wash their bodies two days and two nights; let them undergo twenty strokes for the devotion and prayer to God the Friend, Lord of wide pastures. Let no man drink of these offerings who does not know the sacred praise-words."

For His brightness and glory, I will offer Him devotion worth being heard ....

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123 We offer devotion to God the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake;

To whom God the Wise Lord offered praise in the shining House of Song, Paradise.

124 With His arms lifted up towards Immortality, the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, drives forward from the shining Paradise, as in a beautiful chariot that drives on, ever-swift, adorned with all sorts of ornaments, and made of gold.

125 Four stallions draw that chariot, all of the same white colour, living on heavenly food and undying. The hoofs of their fore-feet are shod with gold, the hoofs of their hind-feet are shod with silver; all are yoked to the same pole, and wear the yoke and the cross-beams of the yoke, fastened with hooks of the Kingdom to a beautiful ....

126 At His right hand drives the angel of Truth, the most beneficent and most well-shapen.

At His left hand drives the most upright angel of Right Devotion, the holy one, bearing offerings in her hands, clothed with white clothes, and white herself; and the cursing thought of the Law of the Wise Lord.

127 Close by Him drives the strong cursing thought of the wise man, opposing foes in the shape, as it were, of a boar, a sharp-toothed he-boar, a sharp-jawed boar, that kills at one stroke, pursuing, wrathful, with a dripping face, strong and swift to run, and rushing all around.

Behind Him drives the light of the fire, all in a blaze, and the awesome kingly Glory.

128 On a side of the chariot of the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, stand a thousand bows well-made, with a string of cowgut; they go through the heavenly space, they fall through the heavenly space upon the skulls of the demons.

129 On a side of the chariot of the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, stand a thousand vulture-feathered arrows, with a golden mouth, with a horn shaft, with a brass tail, and well-made. They go through the heavenly space, they fall through the heavenly space upon the skulls of the demons.

130 On a side of the chariot of the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, stand a thousand spears well-made and sharp-piercing. They go through the heavenly space, they fall through the heavenly space upon the skulls of the demons.

On a side of the chariot of the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, stand a thousand steel-hammers, two-edged, well-made. They go through the heavenly space, they fall through the heavenly space upon the skulls of the demons.

131 On a side of the chariot of the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, stand a thousand swords, two-edged and well-made. They go through the heavenly space, they fall through the heavenly space upon the skulls of the demons.

On a side of the chariot of the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, stand a thousand maces of iron, well-made. They go through the heavenly space, they fall through the heavenly space upon the skulls of the demons.

132 On a side of the chariot of the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, stands a beautiful well-falling club, with a hundred knots, a hundred edges, that rushes forward and fells men down; a club cast out of red brass, of strong, golden brass; the strongest of all weapons, the most victorious of all weapons. It goes through the heavenly space, it falls through the heavenly space upon the skulls of the demons.

133 After He has smitten the demons, after He has smitten down the men who lied unto the Friend, the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, drives forward through Arezahi and Savahi, through Fradadhafshu and Vidadhafshu, through Vourubareshti and Vouruzareshti, through this our region, the bright Xvaniratha.

134 Satan, who is all death, flees away in fear; Wrath, the evil-doing, flees away in fear; the long-handed Bushyasta flees away in fear; all the demons unseen and the fiends flee away in fear.

135 Oh! may we never fall across the rush of the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, when in anger! May the Lord of wide pastures never smite us in His anger; He who stands up upon this earth as the strongest, the most valiant, the most energetic, the swiftest, the most fiend-smiting, He, the Friend, Lord of wide pastures.

For His brightness and glory, I will offer Him devotion worth being heard ....

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136 We offer devotion to God the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake;

For whom white stallions, yoked to His chariot, draw it, on one golden wheel, with a full shining axle.

137 "Happy that man, I think," said the Wise Lord, "O holy Zarathustra! for whom a holy priest, as pious as any in the world, who is faithful to the Word, offers up devotion to God the Friend with bundles of twigs and with the proper words.

"Straight to that man, I think, will the Friend come, to visit his dwelling,

138 "When the boons of the Friend will come to him, as he follows God's teaching, and thinks according to God's teaching.

"Woe to that man, I think," said the Wise Lord, "O holy Zarathustra! for whom an unholy priest, not pious, who is not faithful to the Word, stands behind the twigs, however full may be the bundles of twigs he ties, however long may be the devotion he performs."

139 He does not delight the Wise Lord, nor the other holy angels, nor the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, he who thus scorns the Wise Lord, and the holy angels, and the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, and the Law, and the angel of Truth, and the angel of Right Giving, who makes the world grow, who makes the world increase.

For His brightness and glory, I will offer Him devotion worth being heard ....

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140 We offer devotion to God the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake.

I will offer devotion to the good Friend, O Spitama! to the strong, heavenly One, who is foremost, highly merciful, and peerless; whose house is above, a stout and strong warrior;

141 Victorious and armed with a well-fashioned weapon, watchful in darkness and undeceivable. He is the stoutest of the stoutest, He is the strongest of the strongest, He is the most intelligent of the mighty, He is victorious and endowed with Glory: He, of the ten thousand eyes, of the ten thousand watchers, the powerful, the all-knowing, the Undeceivable.

For His brightness and glory, I will offer Him devotion worth being heard ....

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142 We offer devotion to God the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, .... sleepless, and ever awake;

Who, with His manifold knowledge, powerfully increases the creation of the Holy Spirit, and is well-created and most great, self-shining like the moon, when He makes His own body shine;

143 Whose face is flashing with light like the face of the star Tishtrya; whose chariot is embraced by that angel who is foremost amongst those who have no deceit in them, O Spitama! who is fairer than any creature in the world, and full of light to shine. I will glorify that chariot, wrought by the Maker, the Wise Lord, inlaid with stars and made of a heavenly substance; the chariot of Him who has ten thousand watchers, the powerful, the all-knowing, the Undeceivable.

For His brightness and glory, I will offer Him devotion worth being heard ....

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144 We offer devotion to God the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, who is truth-speaking, a chief in assemblies, with a thousand ears, well-shapen, with a thousand eyes, high, with full knowledge, strong, sleepless, and ever awake.

We offer devotion to God the Friend who watches around countries;

We offer devotion to God the Friend who is within countries;

We offer devotion to God the Friend who is in this country;

We offer devotion to God the Friend who is above countries;

We offer devotion to God the Friend who is under countries;

We offer devotion to God the Friend who is before countries;

We offer devotion to God the Friend who is behind countries.

145 We offer devotion to God, the Friend and the Wise Lord, the two great, imperishable, holy Names; and we give thanks for the stars, and the moon, and the sun, which are His signs, and for the trees that yield the twigs of prayer. We offer devotion to God the Friend, Lord of all countries.

For His brightness and glory, I will offer unto Him devotion worth being heard, namely, unto God the Friend, Lord of wide pastures.

The will of the Lord is the law of holiness ....

I bless the devotion and prayer, and the strength and vigour of God the Friend, Lord of wide pastures, who has a thousand ears, ten thousand eyes, and is invoked by His own name.

Holiness is the best of all good ....

Give unto that man brightness and glory, .... give him the bright, all-happy, blissful abode of the holy ones!