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Rh serpent, Asi Dahâka. Its beginning reminds one of a similar and perhaps identical question in Vendîdâd XVIII, 61: Kô thwãm yim Ahurem Mazdâm mazistaya inti inaoti, 'Who grieves thee, Ahura Mazda, with the sorest grief?'

Khshvaêpaya vaênaya bareshna (or barenus.)

apagayêhê.—Privation of life…

vîshâka (= vîshâadkha, 'also of poison,' at the end of XLVIII, II d, in the best MSS.)

barôithrô-taêzem. — See Fragments at Vd. XVIII, 14, 33 (Sp.)

pâdhavê zâvare gava aza srûma.