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Zarathustra asked Ahura Mazda:--
O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! What shall be his reward,
after his soul has parted from his body, who has cleansed from the Nasu
the man defiled by the dead?
Ahura Mazda answered:--
"The welfare of Paradise thou canst promise to that man, for his reward
in the other world."
Zarathustra asked Ahura Mazda:--
O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! How shall I fight against
that Drug who from the dead rushes upon the living? How shall I fight
against that Nasu who from the dead defiles the living?
Ahura Mazda answered:--
"Say aloud those words in the Gathas that are to be said twice. Say
aloud those words in the Gathas that are to be said thrice. Say aloud
those words in the Gathas that are to be said four times. And the Drug
shall fly away like the well-darted arrow, like the felt of last year,
like the annual garment of the earth."
O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If a man who does not know
the rites of cleansing according to the law of Mazda, offers to cleanse
the unclean, how shall I then fight against that Drug who from the dead
rushes upon the living? How shall I fight against that Drug who from the
dead defiles the living?
Ahura Mazda answered:--
"Then, O Spitama Zarathustra! the Drug Nasu appears to wax stronger than
she was before. Stronger then are sickness and death and the working of
the fiend than they were before.
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