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1oe CHAPTER LXXVI, 3—LXXVII, 7. 225 and with more provision for the creatures’. 3. And with the manifestation of knowledge the best duty is that which exists in lawfully practising procreation, axd the complete progression of righteous men arose therefrom. 4. In like manner he who is the omniscient creator formed mankind in the first pair, who were brother and sister, avd became Mashy4th and Mashyayéth », and all races of material life exzs¢ by means of acquiring sons and 47s omnisciently causing procreation. 5. The man and woman were also made to lust (gAmtntdd) by him, and thereby decame the father and mother of material men; and he naturalized among primitive man the qualities of a desire (4lQdan5) for acquiring sons together through glorifying. 6. And the law avd religion authorised it as a proper wish, so long as they proceed from those who are their own ve/ations, not from those who are not their own; and with those whom nextof-kin marriages’, original duties, and desires for other sons have formed, complete progress in the world is connected, and even unto the time of the renovation of the universe*, it is to arise therefrom. 7. And the birth of many glorious practisers of the religion, those confident in spirit, organizers of the realm, arrangers of the country, amd even accom- 1 Reading va/-dém-nivarisndfhatar; the syllables -dtar being written separately M14 has va/ d&am-nfvarisnth atyy&dtar, ‘more remembering the provision for the creatures.’ Promoting the increase of, and providing maintenance for, good creatures are considered to be important good works. 7 Here written Mashyé and Mashydy&éih, but see Chaps. XXXVII, 82, LXIV, 2. * See Chap. LXV. * See Chap. II, 8. [18] Q 226 DADISTAN-{ DINIK. plishers of the renovation of ¢he universe, which artses from those same to whom that practice shall be law—and when it occurs lawfully—is a miracle and benefit of the world, the will of the sacred beings and the utmost good work discernible, because the complete progress of the righteous arises therefrom, and the great female faculty (nekedth) is manifested. 8. So when the opponent of the same, by whom the source of seed and procreation is spoiled, is intent upon a way for the death of progeny—and the intention is certain—z¢s annihilation is owing to him'; and he is the devastating fiend’, whose will is a desire of depopulation and ruin, and by the power of his Niy4z (demon of ‘want’)® he turns imperceptibly the esteem of the very indispensable production of men from the position of wishing for sons to a creature 4 who is opposed to it, through whom have arisen its ruin azd corruption. 9. And the nature and power which are his cherishing of progeny are not suitable for receiving seed, and misrepresented (drékinitdd) by him is the accompanying evil intercourse, so that emitting the seed (shQdak), in delivering z# at that time into that burning place, full of stench, is to produce z¢s death, and no procreation occurs.
210. The dupesé turn the living seed from mingling with women and seeking for births, just as in the like vice of any demon, connected with a longing 1 A free translation of agas 16fté, which phrase is placed at the end of the section in the Pahl. original. + The evil spirit. ® See Chap. XXXVII, 52. * Mr1q has ‘to a member,’ 5 Of the fiend. CHAPTER LXXVII, 8—LXXVIIJ, I. 227 for the dupes’, they shall abandon that advantage of the world, the delights (viyag4n6) of a son® 11. He who is wasting seed makes a practice of causing the death of progeny; when the custom is completely continuous, which produces an evil? stoppage of the progress of the race, the creatures have become annihilated; amd certainly, that action, from which, when it is universally proceeding, the depopulation of the world must arise, Zas become and furthered (frarAst6) the greatest wish of Aharman‘. 12, Such a practiser is the greatest wish of Aharman, through the demon’s excretion® of doubt zz the practice, owing to intercourse with the emitter, which is most filthy and most fetid, and the emitting member, which is causing death; and the demoniacal practice® is perceptible even from the same practice, and whatever is the heinousness of the sinfulness is clear to observers of the dead dody. CuarterR LXXVIII. 1. As to the seventy-seventh question avd reply, that which you ask is thus: As éo the nature of the heinousness avd sinfulness of committing adultery, and the worldly retribution specified for z¢ in revela- 2 Such men are said to become paramours of the demons (see Vend. VIII, 102-106), as further alluded to in § 12. 3 Mrgq has ‘seeking a son.’ ® Reading dahéd vad, but Mr4 has y4ityfinté, ‘brought a,” and may be right. * See Chap. XXXVII, ro. ® Reading rikhih, but M14 has r4sth, ‘course.’ * In hell. Q2 228 DADISTAN-! DINiK. tion, wt/7 you then direct some one to point out to us the modes? of retribution for it ? 2. The reply is this, that it is adultery, heinous and vicious, which first Dah&k used to commit, and he is known by the illicit intercourse which was his desire with Vadak*, who was zs mother, in the lifetime of Afdrvad4sp’, who was his father, without ¢ the authority of Adrvad4sp, who was the husband of Vadak whose practising of sin, unauthorisedly and injudiciously, was itself heinous and very frequent. 3. And its modes of theft or spoliation are just as much more heinous than other theft aad spoliation as a man and that which arises from his procreation of man are greater than the position of property. 4. One is this, that z¢ is important to consider with steadfastness the courtezan life of the adulteress and the bad disposition assuredly and undoubtedly therein ; she causes pillage unauthorisedly, and in her practice, also, intercourse during menstruation, owing to z¢s resembling the burning of seed, is a frightful kind of handiwork (dasté). 1 Mrgq has ‘the various modes.’
31 Mrgq has ‘the various modes.’ 2 This is evidently the name written Udaf in Paz. in Bd. XXXI, 6, who was, therefore, the daughter of Bayak; the fact of her being the mother of Dah&k is more clearly expressed in the Pahlavi text of Chap. LXXII, 5. 3 This is the name written Khrfitasp in Bd. XXXI, 6, which is a Pz. reading, though confirmed by the Pahl. form in TD (as Udat is, to some extent, by the Pahl. Add of TD). This Afrvadasp, whose name can also be read Khfirfitaésp, must be distinguished from his namesake, the father of Vist&asp, whose name became corrupted into LéharAsp (see Bd. XXXI, 28, 29). * K35 omits azvfk, ‘ without,’ here, but has it in Chap. LXXII, 5. Without this particle the meaning would be ‘who was the high- e Priest of his father, Afirvadasp.’ CHAPTER LXXVIII, 2-10. 229 5. One is this, that it may be ¢hat she becomes pregnant by that intercourse, and has to commit on her child? the murdering of progeny. 6. One is this, that it may be in pregnancy, dy her coming to intercourse wth another man, that the living child which is in her womb has died through that intercourse. 7. One is this, that it may be that she becomes pregnant by that intercourse, amd the pregnancy having given indications, through shame or fear she swallows a drug? [and seeks a remedy, and murders the child in Zer womb. 8. One is this, that it may] be that a woman who is foreign or infidel, and becomes pregnant by that intercourse, gives birth to a child, amd it has grown up with the child which is known ¢o delong to the husband of the woman, ad remains in foreign habits (an-airth) or infidelity. 9. The committer of the illicit intercourse is as unobservant and grievously sinful as he who shall lead his own child from 42s native habits (airth) and the good religion into foreign habits and infidelity; as to the sin which that child may commit in childhood Ze is the sinner, and as to that which it may commit in manhood he is equally sinful with it. 10. Also, if that child be put to death in childhood, and be passed through water, rain, or fire, ov be buried in the well-yielding earth®, Ze is an equally vicious murderer, and is defiled thereby through decng the invisible causer. ? Mr4 has ‘ and with the assistance of another man she has so to commit on her child of that pregnancy.’ The interpolation is clumsy, and does not make the sentence easier to translate. 2 The passage which follows, in brackets, is from Mr4; there being evidently something omitted from K35 at this point. 5 The contamination of water, rain, fire, or earth, by contact with 280 . DADISTAN-? DINIK.
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.
1oe CHAPTER LXXVI, 3—LXXVII, 7. 225 and with more provision for the creatures’. 3. And with the manifestation of knowledge the best duty is that which exists in lawfully practising procreation, axd the complete progression of righteous men arose therefrom. 4. In like manner he who is the omniscient creator formed mankind in the first pair, who were brother and sister, avd became Mashy4th and Mashyayéth », and all races of material life exzs¢ by means of acquiring sons and 47s omnisciently causing procreation. 5. The man and woman were also made to lust (gAmtntdd) by him, and thereby decame the father and mother of material men; and he naturalized among primitive man the qualities of a desire (4lQdan5) for acquiring sons together through glorifying. 6. And the law avd religion authorised it as a proper wish, so long as they proceed from those who are their own ve/ations, not from those who are not their own; and with those whom nextof-kin marriages’, original duties, and desires for other sons have formed, complete progress in the world is connected, and even unto the time of the renovation of the universe*, it is to arise therefrom. 7. And the birth of many glorious practisers of the religion, those confident in spirit, organizers of the realm, arrangers of the country, amd even accom- 1 Reading va/-dém-nivarisndfhatar; the syllables -dtar being written separately M14 has va/ d&am-nfvarisnth atyy&dtar, ‘more remembering the provision for the creatures.’ Promoting the increase of, and providing maintenance for, good creatures are considered to be important good works. 7 Here written Mashyé and Mashydy&éih, but see Chaps. XXXVII, 82, LXIV, 2. * See Chap. LXV. * See Chap. II, 8. [18] Q 226 DADISTAN-{ DINIK. plishers of the renovation of ¢he universe, which artses from those same to whom that practice shall be law—and when it occurs lawfully—is a miracle and benefit of the world, the will of the sacred beings and the utmost good work discernible, because the complete progress of the righteous arises therefrom, and the great female faculty (nekedth) is manifested. 8. So when the opponent of the same, by whom the source of seed and procreation is spoiled, is intent upon a way for the death of progeny—and the intention is certain—z¢s annihilation is owing to him'; and he is the devastating fiend’, whose will is a desire of depopulation and ruin, and by the power of his Niy4z (demon of ‘want’)® he turns imperceptibly the esteem of the very indispensable production of men from the position of wishing for sons to a creature 4 who is opposed to it, through whom have arisen its ruin azd corruption. 9. And the nature and power which are his cherishing of progeny are not suitable for receiving seed, and misrepresented (drékinitdd) by him is the accompanying evil intercourse, so that emitting the seed (shQdak), in delivering z# at that time into that burning place, full of stench, is to produce z¢s death, and no procreation occurs.
210. The dupesé turn the living seed from mingling with women and seeking for births, just as in the like vice of any demon, connected with a longing 1 A free translation of agas 16fté, which phrase is placed at the end of the section in the Pahl. original. + The evil spirit. ® See Chap. XXXVII, 52. * Mr1q has ‘to a member,’ 5 Of the fiend. CHAPTER LXXVII, 8—LXXVIIJ, I. 227 for the dupes’, they shall abandon that advantage of the world, the delights (viyag4n6) of a son® 11. He who is wasting seed makes a practice of causing the death of progeny; when the custom is completely continuous, which produces an evil? stoppage of the progress of the race, the creatures have become annihilated; amd certainly, that action, from which, when it is universally proceeding, the depopulation of the world must arise, Zas become and furthered (frarAst6) the greatest wish of Aharman‘. 12, Such a practiser is the greatest wish of Aharman, through the demon’s excretion® of doubt zz the practice, owing to intercourse with the emitter, which is most filthy and most fetid, and the emitting member, which is causing death; and the demoniacal practice® is perceptible even from the same practice, and whatever is the heinousness of the sinfulness is clear to observers of the dead dody. CuarterR LXXVIII. 1. As to the seventy-seventh question avd reply, that which you ask is thus: As éo the nature of the heinousness avd sinfulness of committing adultery, and the worldly retribution specified for z¢ in revela- 2 Such men are said to become paramours of the demons (see Vend. VIII, 102-106), as further alluded to in § 12. 3 Mrgq has ‘seeking a son.’ ® Reading dahéd vad, but Mr4 has y4ityfinté, ‘brought a,” and may be right. * See Chap. XXXVII, ro. ® Reading rikhih, but M14 has r4sth, ‘course.’ * In hell. Q2 228 DADISTAN-! DINiK. tion, wt/7 you then direct some one to point out to us the modes? of retribution for it ? 2. The reply is this, that it is adultery, heinous and vicious, which first Dah&k used to commit, and he is known by the illicit intercourse which was his desire with Vadak*, who was zs mother, in the lifetime of Afdrvad4sp’, who was his father, without ¢ the authority of Adrvad4sp, who was the husband of Vadak whose practising of sin, unauthorisedly and injudiciously, was itself heinous and very frequent. 3. And its modes of theft or spoliation are just as much more heinous than other theft aad spoliation as a man and that which arises from his procreation of man are greater than the position of property. 4. One is this, that z¢ is important to consider with steadfastness the courtezan life of the adulteress and the bad disposition assuredly and undoubtedly therein ; she causes pillage unauthorisedly, and in her practice, also, intercourse during menstruation, owing to z¢s resembling the burning of seed, is a frightful kind of handiwork (dasté). 1 Mrgq has ‘the various modes.’
31 Mrgq has ‘the various modes.’ 2 This is evidently the name written Udaf in Paz. in Bd. XXXI, 6, who was, therefore, the daughter of Bayak; the fact of her being the mother of Dah&k is more clearly expressed in the Pahlavi text of Chap. LXXII, 5. 3 This is the name written Khrfitasp in Bd. XXXI, 6, which is a Pz. reading, though confirmed by the Pahl. form in TD (as Udat is, to some extent, by the Pahl. Add of TD). This Afrvadasp, whose name can also be read Khfirfitaésp, must be distinguished from his namesake, the father of Vist&asp, whose name became corrupted into LéharAsp (see Bd. XXXI, 28, 29). * K35 omits azvfk, ‘ without,’ here, but has it in Chap. LXXII, 5. Without this particle the meaning would be ‘who was the high- e Priest of his father, Afirvadasp.’ CHAPTER LXXVIII, 2-10. 229 5. One is this, that it may be ¢hat she becomes pregnant by that intercourse, and has to commit on her child? the murdering of progeny. 6. One is this, that it may be in pregnancy, dy her coming to intercourse wth another man, that the living child which is in her womb has died through that intercourse. 7. One is this, that it may be that she becomes pregnant by that intercourse, amd the pregnancy having given indications, through shame or fear she swallows a drug? [and seeks a remedy, and murders the child in Zer womb. 8. One is this, that it may] be that a woman who is foreign or infidel, and becomes pregnant by that intercourse, gives birth to a child, amd it has grown up with the child which is known ¢o delong to the husband of the woman, ad remains in foreign habits (an-airth) or infidelity. 9. The committer of the illicit intercourse is as unobservant and grievously sinful as he who shall lead his own child from 42s native habits (airth) and the good religion into foreign habits and infidelity; as to the sin which that child may commit in childhood Ze is the sinner, and as to that which it may commit in manhood he is equally sinful with it. 10. Also, if that child be put to death in childhood, and be passed through water, rain, or fire, ov be buried in the well-yielding earth®, Ze is an equally vicious murderer, and is defiled thereby through decng the invisible causer. ? Mr4 has ‘ and with the assistance of another man she has so to commit on her child of that pregnancy.’ The interpolation is clumsy, and does not make the sentence easier to translate. 2 The passage which follows, in brackets, is from Mr4; there being evidently something omitted from K35 at this point. 5 The contamination of water, rain, fire, or earth, by contact with 280 . DADISTAN-? DINIK.
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