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Rh 2. All good thoughts, all good words, all good deeds will reach Paradise.

All evil thoughts, all evil words, all evil deeds will reach Hell.

And all good thoughts, all good words, all good deeds are the badge of the righteous for Paradise.

This fragment is the twenty-third and last Fargard of one of the Gâthic Nasks, the r, which was a commentary in vulgar Zend on the Gdtha texts. Its Pahlavi translation is found in the Dinkart, IX, 46. See the Airyama Ishyô itself, Yasna LIV, Venîdâd XX, 11.

1. The Airyama Ishyô I declare, O pure Spitama, the greatest of all words ; I created it as the most triumphant of all words. That is the word that the Saosyants will pronounce.

2. Through it, I proclaim it, O Spitama, I become sovereign over my creation, I, Ahura Mazda; and through it Angra Mainyu, of the bad religion, shall lose the sovereignty over his own creation, O Spitama Zarathustra.

3. Angra Mainyu shall hide under the earth; under the earth shall the demons hide. The dead shall rise up, life shall come back to the bodies and they shall keep the breath.

This fragment is composed of two series of invocations which differ only in the same manner as the Lesser Sirdza differs from