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1‘ The two answering implements for fire ®; a broom’; a pair of tongs; a pair of round bellows extended at the bottom, contracted at the top; a sharp-edged sharp-pointed* adze; a sharp-toothed sharp-pointed saw; by means of which the worshippers of Mazda procure wood for the fire of Ahura Mazda. 8 (26). ‘He shall godly and piously give to godly men a set of the priestly instruments of which the priests make use, to redeem his own soul, namely: The Astra®; the meat-vessel ; the Paitidana’; the 1 Perhaps: ‘of the small, venomous kind, with a mischievous track’ (Bund. XIX, 28: ‘when the grain-carrier travels over the earth, it produces a hollow track: when the hedgehog travels over it, the track goes away from it and it becomes level:’ cf. Farg. XIII, 2, note). * Corpse-flies; cf. Farg. VII, 2. 8 ¢The holes at which the unclean are washed’ (Comm. ; cf. Farg. IX, 6 seq.) ‘ To priests. 5 For the sacred fire. * Two receptacles, one for the wood, another for the incense. 7 To cleanse the Atash-dén or fire-vessel (Yasna IX, 1). ® Literally, ‘ sharp-kneed.’ ® The Aspahé-astra. 10 As everything that goes out of man is unclean, his breath defiles all that it touches; priests, therefore, while on duty, and even laymen, while praying or eating, must wear a mouth-veil, the FARGARD XIV. 173 Khrafstraghna!; the Sraoshé-4arana*; the cup for the Myazda*; the cups for mixing and dividing ‘; the regular mortar’; the Haoma cups*; and the Baresma. 9 (32). ‘ He shall godly and piously give to godly men a set of all the war implements of which the warriors make use, to redeem his own soul ; ‘The first being a javelin, the second a sword, the third a club, the fourth a bow, the fifth a saddle with a quiver and thirty brass-headed arrows, the sixth a sling with arm-string and with thirty sling stones’; ‘The seventh a cuirass, the eighth a hauberk *, the ninth a tunic®, the tenth a helmet, the eleventh a girdle, the twelfth a pair of greaves. 10 (41). ‘He shall godly and piously give to godly men a set of all the implements of which the Paitidana (Parsi Peném), consisting ‘of two pieces of white cotton cloth, hanging loosely from the bridge of the nose to, at least, two inches below the mouth, and tied with two strings at the back of the head’ (Haug, Essays, and ed. p. 243, n. 1; cf. Comm. ad Farg. XVIII, 1, and Anquetil II, 530). ? The ‘ Khrafstra-killer;’ an instrument for killing snakes, &c. It is a stick with a leather thong at its end, something like the Indian fly-flap. * See General Introduction. * Doubtful. “ The cup in which the juice of the hém and of the urvaram (the twigs of hadh&-naépata which are pounded together with the hém) is received from the mortar (Comm.) 5 The mortar with its pestle. * The cup on which twigs of Haoma are laid before being pounded, the so-called tashtah (Anquetil II, 533); ‘some say, the hém-strainer’ [a saucer with nine holes], Comm.
2* The cup on which twigs of Haoma are laid before being pounded, the so-called tashtah (Anquetil II, 533); ‘some say, the hém-strainer’ [a saucer with nine holes], Comm. 7 These are six offensive arms: the next six are defensive arms.— Cf. W. Jackson: Herodotus VII, 61, or the Arms of the Ancient Persians illustrated from Iranian Sources ; New York, 1894. * ‘Going from the helm to the cuirass’ (Comm.) ® “Under the cuirass’ (Comm.) 174 VEND{DAD. husbandmen make use, to redeem his own soul, namely: A plough with yoke and...1; a goad for ox; a mortar of stone; a round-headed hand-mill for grinding corn ; 11 (48). ‘A spade for digging and tilling; one measure of silver and one measure of gold.’ O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! How much silver ? Ahura Mazda answered : ‘ The price of a stallion.’ _ O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! How much gold ? . Ahura Mazda answered: ‘The price of a he-camel. 12 (54). ‘He shall godly and piously procure a rill of running water? for godly husbandmen, to redeem his own soul.’ O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! How large is the rill ? Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ The depth of a dog, and the breadth of a dog *. 13 (57). ‘He shall godly and piously give a piece of arable land to godly men, to redeem his own soul.’ O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! How large is the piece of land? , Ahura Mazda answered: ‘As much as can be watered with such a rill divided into two canals ¢. 14 (60). ‘ He shall godly and piously procure for godly men a stable for oxen, with nine hathras and nine nematas®, to redeem his own soul.’ 1 Yuy6-semi ayazhana pairi-darezana. * The most precious of all gifts in such a dry place as Iran. Water is obtained either through canals of derivation or through undergound canals (karéz, kanat). ® Which is estimated ‘a foot deep, a foot broad’ (Comm.) * Doubtful. 5 Meaning unknown. FARGARD XIV. 175 O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! How large is the stable ? Ahura Mazda answered: ‘It shall have twelve alleys! in the largest part of the house, nine alleys in the middle part, six alleys in the smallest part. ‘He shall godly and piously give to godly men goodly beds with sheets and cushions, to redeem his own soul. 15 (64). ‘ He shall godly and piously give in marriage to a godly man a virgin maid, whom no man has known ?, to redeem his own soul.’ O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One ! What sort of maid ? Ahura Mazda answered: ‘A sister or a daughter of his, at the age of puberty, with ear-rings in her ears, and past her fifteenth year. 16 (67). ‘He shall godly and piously give to holy men twice seven head of small cattle, to redeem his own soul. ‘He shall bring up twice seven whelps. ‘He shall throw twice seven bridges over canals. 17 (70). ‘He shall put into repair twice nine stables that are out of repair.
316 (67). ‘He shall godly and piously give to holy men twice seven head of small cattle, to redeem his own soul. ‘He shall bring up twice seven whelps. ‘He shall throw twice seven bridges over canals. 17 (70). ‘He shall put into repair twice nine stables that are out of repair. ‘He shall cleanse twice nine dogs from stipti, anairiti, and vyangura °, and all the diseases that are produced on the body of a dog. ‘He shall treat twice nine godly men to their fill of meat, bread, strong drink, and wine. 18 (73). ‘This is the penalty, this is the atonement which saves the faithful man who submits to it, not him who does not submit to it. Such a 1 Twelve ranks of stalls (?). * Match-making is a good work (Farg. IV, 44). > Meaning unknown. 176 VEND{DAD. one shall surely be an inhabitant in the mansion of the Drug!’ FARGARD XV. I (1-8). On five sins the commission of which makes the sinner a Peshétanu. II a (9-12). On unlawful unions and attempts to procure miscarriage. II b (13-19). On the obligations of the illegitimate father towards the mother and the child. IIT (20-45). On the treatment of a bitch big with young. IV (46-51). On the breeding of dogs. I, 1. How many are the sins that men commit and that, being committed and not confessed, nor atoned for, make their committer a Peshétanu 2 ? 2 (4). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ There are five such sins, O holy Zarathustra! It is the first of these sins that men commit when a man teaches one of the faithful another faith, another law’, a lower doctrine, and he leads him astray with a full knowledge and conscience of the sin: the man who has done the deed becomes a Peshétanu. 3 (9). ‘It is the second of these sins when a man gives bones too hard or food too hot to a shepherd’s dog or to a house-dog ; 4 (11). ‘If the bones stick in the dog’s teeth or stop in his throat; or if the food too hot burn his 1 Cf. Farg. VIII, 107. * That is to say: he shall receive two hundred strokes with the Aspahé-astra or the Sraosh6-Aarana ; or pay three hundred isttfrs. > The Commentary has, ‘that is, a creed that is not ours.’ FARGARD XV. 177 mouth or his tongue, he may come to grief thereby ; if he come to grief thereby, the man who has done the deed becomes a Peshdétanu?. 5 (16). ‘It is the third of these sins when a man smites a bitch big with young or affrights her by running after her, or shouting or clapping with the hands ; 6 (18). ‘If the bitch fall into a hole, or a well, or a precipice, or a river, or a canal, she may come to grief thereby; if she come to grief thereby, the man who has done the deed becomes a Peshdtanu ?. 7 (22). ‘It is the fourth of these sins when a man has intercourse with a woman who has the whites or sees the blood, the man that has done the deed becomes a Peshdtanu °.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1‘ The two answering implements for fire ®; a broom’; a pair of tongs; a pair of round bellows extended at the bottom, contracted at the top; a sharp-edged sharp-pointed* adze; a sharp-toothed sharp-pointed saw; by means of which the worshippers of Mazda procure wood for the fire of Ahura Mazda. 8 (26). ‘He shall godly and piously give to godly men a set of the priestly instruments of which the priests make use, to redeem his own soul, namely: The Astra®; the meat-vessel ; the Paitidana’; the 1 Perhaps: ‘of the small, venomous kind, with a mischievous track’ (Bund. XIX, 28: ‘when the grain-carrier travels over the earth, it produces a hollow track: when the hedgehog travels over it, the track goes away from it and it becomes level:’ cf. Farg. XIII, 2, note). * Corpse-flies; cf. Farg. VII, 2. 8 ¢The holes at which the unclean are washed’ (Comm. ; cf. Farg. IX, 6 seq.) ‘ To priests. 5 For the sacred fire. * Two receptacles, one for the wood, another for the incense. 7 To cleanse the Atash-dén or fire-vessel (Yasna IX, 1). ® Literally, ‘ sharp-kneed.’ ® The Aspahé-astra. 10 As everything that goes out of man is unclean, his breath defiles all that it touches; priests, therefore, while on duty, and even laymen, while praying or eating, must wear a mouth-veil, the FARGARD XIV. 173 Khrafstraghna!; the Sraoshé-4arana*; the cup for the Myazda*; the cups for mixing and dividing ‘; the regular mortar’; the Haoma cups*; and the Baresma. 9 (32). ‘ He shall godly and piously give to godly men a set of all the war implements of which the warriors make use, to redeem his own soul ; ‘The first being a javelin, the second a sword, the third a club, the fourth a bow, the fifth a saddle with a quiver and thirty brass-headed arrows, the sixth a sling with arm-string and with thirty sling stones’; ‘The seventh a cuirass, the eighth a hauberk *, the ninth a tunic®, the tenth a helmet, the eleventh a girdle, the twelfth a pair of greaves. 10 (41). ‘He shall godly and piously give to godly men a set of all the implements of which the Paitidana (Parsi Peném), consisting ‘of two pieces of white cotton cloth, hanging loosely from the bridge of the nose to, at least, two inches below the mouth, and tied with two strings at the back of the head’ (Haug, Essays, and ed. p. 243, n. 1; cf. Comm. ad Farg. XVIII, 1, and Anquetil II, 530). ? The ‘ Khrafstra-killer;’ an instrument for killing snakes, &c. It is a stick with a leather thong at its end, something like the Indian fly-flap. * See General Introduction. * Doubtful. “ The cup in which the juice of the hém and of the urvaram (the twigs of hadh&-naépata which are pounded together with the hém) is received from the mortar (Comm.) 5 The mortar with its pestle. * The cup on which twigs of Haoma are laid before being pounded, the so-called tashtah (Anquetil II, 533); ‘some say, the hém-strainer’ [a saucer with nine holes], Comm.
2* The cup on which twigs of Haoma are laid before being pounded, the so-called tashtah (Anquetil II, 533); ‘some say, the hém-strainer’ [a saucer with nine holes], Comm. 7 These are six offensive arms: the next six are defensive arms.— Cf. W. Jackson: Herodotus VII, 61, or the Arms of the Ancient Persians illustrated from Iranian Sources ; New York, 1894. * ‘Going from the helm to the cuirass’ (Comm.) ® “Under the cuirass’ (Comm.) 174 VEND{DAD. husbandmen make use, to redeem his own soul, namely: A plough with yoke and...1; a goad for ox; a mortar of stone; a round-headed hand-mill for grinding corn ; 11 (48). ‘A spade for digging and tilling; one measure of silver and one measure of gold.’ O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! How much silver ? Ahura Mazda answered : ‘ The price of a stallion.’ _ O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! How much gold ? . Ahura Mazda answered: ‘The price of a he-camel. 12 (54). ‘He shall godly and piously procure a rill of running water? for godly husbandmen, to redeem his own soul.’ O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! How large is the rill ? Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ The depth of a dog, and the breadth of a dog *. 13 (57). ‘He shall godly and piously give a piece of arable land to godly men, to redeem his own soul.’ O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! How large is the piece of land? , Ahura Mazda answered: ‘As much as can be watered with such a rill divided into two canals ¢. 14 (60). ‘ He shall godly and piously procure for godly men a stable for oxen, with nine hathras and nine nematas®, to redeem his own soul.’ 1 Yuy6-semi ayazhana pairi-darezana. * The most precious of all gifts in such a dry place as Iran. Water is obtained either through canals of derivation or through undergound canals (karéz, kanat). ® Which is estimated ‘a foot deep, a foot broad’ (Comm.) * Doubtful. 5 Meaning unknown. FARGARD XIV. 175 O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! How large is the stable ? Ahura Mazda answered: ‘It shall have twelve alleys! in the largest part of the house, nine alleys in the middle part, six alleys in the smallest part. ‘He shall godly and piously give to godly men goodly beds with sheets and cushions, to redeem his own soul. 15 (64). ‘ He shall godly and piously give in marriage to a godly man a virgin maid, whom no man has known ?, to redeem his own soul.’ O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One ! What sort of maid ? Ahura Mazda answered: ‘A sister or a daughter of his, at the age of puberty, with ear-rings in her ears, and past her fifteenth year. 16 (67). ‘He shall godly and piously give to holy men twice seven head of small cattle, to redeem his own soul. ‘He shall bring up twice seven whelps. ‘He shall throw twice seven bridges over canals. 17 (70). ‘He shall put into repair twice nine stables that are out of repair.
316 (67). ‘He shall godly and piously give to holy men twice seven head of small cattle, to redeem his own soul. ‘He shall bring up twice seven whelps. ‘He shall throw twice seven bridges over canals. 17 (70). ‘He shall put into repair twice nine stables that are out of repair. ‘He shall cleanse twice nine dogs from stipti, anairiti, and vyangura °, and all the diseases that are produced on the body of a dog. ‘He shall treat twice nine godly men to their fill of meat, bread, strong drink, and wine. 18 (73). ‘This is the penalty, this is the atonement which saves the faithful man who submits to it, not him who does not submit to it. Such a 1 Twelve ranks of stalls (?). * Match-making is a good work (Farg. IV, 44). > Meaning unknown. 176 VEND{DAD. one shall surely be an inhabitant in the mansion of the Drug!’ FARGARD XV. I (1-8). On five sins the commission of which makes the sinner a Peshétanu. II a (9-12). On unlawful unions and attempts to procure miscarriage. II b (13-19). On the obligations of the illegitimate father towards the mother and the child. IIT (20-45). On the treatment of a bitch big with young. IV (46-51). On the breeding of dogs. I, 1. How many are the sins that men commit and that, being committed and not confessed, nor atoned for, make their committer a Peshétanu 2 ? 2 (4). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ There are five such sins, O holy Zarathustra! It is the first of these sins that men commit when a man teaches one of the faithful another faith, another law’, a lower doctrine, and he leads him astray with a full knowledge and conscience of the sin: the man who has done the deed becomes a Peshétanu. 3 (9). ‘It is the second of these sins when a man gives bones too hard or food too hot to a shepherd’s dog or to a house-dog ; 4 (11). ‘If the bones stick in the dog’s teeth or stop in his throat; or if the food too hot burn his 1 Cf. Farg. VIII, 107. * That is to say: he shall receive two hundred strokes with the Aspahé-astra or the Sraosh6-Aarana ; or pay three hundred isttfrs. > The Commentary has, ‘that is, a creed that is not ours.’ FARGARD XV. 177 mouth or his tongue, he may come to grief thereby ; if he come to grief thereby, the man who has done the deed becomes a Peshdétanu?. 5 (16). ‘It is the third of these sins when a man smites a bitch big with young or affrights her by running after her, or shouting or clapping with the hands ; 6 (18). ‘If the bitch fall into a hole, or a well, or a precipice, or a river, or a canal, she may come to grief thereby; if she come to grief thereby, the man who has done the deed becomes a Peshdtanu ?. 7 (22). ‘It is the fourth of these sins when a man has intercourse with a woman who has the whites or sees the blood, the man that has done the deed becomes a Peshdtanu °.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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