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# Videvdad 1.19

Vīdēvdād 1.19

- **Language:** Avestan

### [1.19](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.ir.ae.videvdad.1.19)

xṣ̌uuaš.kasəm. asaŋhąmca. ṣ̌ōiϑranąmca. vahištəm. frāϑβərəsəm. azəm. yō. ahurō. mazdā̊. upa. aoδaēṣ̌u. raŋhaiiā̊. yō. asārō. aiβiiāxṣ̌aiieiṇti āat̰. ahe. paitiiārəm. frākərəṇtat̰. aŋrō. mainiiuš. pouru.mahrkō. ziiąmca. daēuuō.dātəm. taožiiāca. daiŋ́hūš.aiβištāra.

> 20 (76). The sixteenth of the good lands and countries which I, Ahura Mazda, created, was the land by the floods of the Rangha, where people live without a head.  
> Thereupon came Angra Mainyu, who is all death, and he counter-created by his witchcraft winter, a work of the Daevas.  
> — James Darmesteter 1880, The Zend-Avesta, Part I. The Vendîdâd (Sacred Books of the East 4)

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## Translations (1)

- [The Zend-Avesta, Part I. The Vendîdâd (Sacred Books of the East 4)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.ir.ae.videvdad~en-darmesteter.1.19) — James Darmesteter 1880, English

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