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Rh are the instances of the Baga compounds that are found in the Inscriptions.

Bagha plays an insignificant part as Fate personified in the Younger Avesta, although this personification becomes more pronounced as the personification of Fate in the later Pahlavi period. There is, however, a solitary passage in the Vendidad, and it may be late, which tells us that a man who is drowned in water or burnt by fire is not killed by water or fire, but by Fate. Cambyses said that it was not in the power of man to counteract Fate.

The term Bagha, moreover, is also frequently used in its ordinary meaning, 'portion,' 'allotment.'