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Mainyo-i-Khard 46

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The sage asked the spirit of wisdom

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thus: 'What is that thing which is the most perfect of all wealth?

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What is that which is predominant over everything whatever?

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And what is that from which no one is able to escape?'

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The spirit of wisdom answered

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thus: 'It is wisdom which is better than the wealth of every kind which is in the world.

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It is destiny which is predominant over every one and everything. 8. And it is Vâê the bad from whom no one is able to escape.'

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Pahlavi Texts, Part III: Dînâ-î Maînôg-î Khirad, Sikand-gûmânîk Vigâr, Sad Dar, translated by E. W. West. Sacred Books of the East, vol. 24, ed. F. Max Müller (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1885). Public domain. Text read from the scan on Wikimedia Commons (digitised by the Internet Archive): English Wikisource's transcription where proofread, OCR elsewhere. · Source ↗

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