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113. Written in propitiation, praise, and benediction of the creator Afhaymazd and the archangels, all the angels of the spiritual and the angels of the worldly existences, and every guardian spirit of the righteous. 14. Homage to the exalted pontiff (rad6) sent from the creator Athaymazd, the most heavenly of the heavenly, Zaratdst the Spitaman. 15. The (which includes the Yasna ceremonial) as directed in Pahl. Vend. IX, 132, 4, o (see App. IV). 1 It is possible also to read ‘in the teaching of the Avesta and Zand ;’ but this would ignore the fact that the ‘teaching’ is the Zand itself. 2 The same rival as is mentioned in Chap. V, 14. ® According to Dd. XLV, 5 the farm4dAr or ‘director’ of the profession of priests of Pars was the pésfip4t or ‘leader’ of the religion. 358 EPISTLES OF MANUOSKfHAR. most prayerful and gainful of things is righteousness; great and good and perfect is Zaratist; and one only is the way of righteousness, all the others are no ways}. 1 Compare Dd. XCIV, 14, Ep. III, 23. EPISTLE IIl. TO ALL OF THE GOOD RELIGION IN IRAN. Jn the name of the sacred beings. A copy of the notification (vishadakd) of hzs priestly lordship M4anfséthar, son of Yfid4n-Yim, regarding the grievous sinfulness of assuming the propriety of washing for fifteen times. Jn the name of the sacred beings. 1. It Aas come unto the ears (vasammifnisnd) of me, Mandséthar, son of Yidan-Yim, pontiff (rad) of Pars and Kirman’, that, in some quarters of the country of Iran, they whose chance happens 40 de so much? pollution, such as is decreed unto so much washing of the customary parts (ptsak6), always wash themselves fifteen times with bull’s urine and once with water, consider themselves as clean®, and go to water, fire; and ceremonial ablution, the ablution 1 See Dd. XCIV, 13. * Reading havan; but it may be ‘pollution of the spiritual life (ahv6),’ though this is hardly possible in the next phrase, where the same word occurs. * By confounding the preliminary washing appointed in Vend. VIII, 279 with the final washing appointed in Vend. VIII, 299 (see App. V, and compare Ep. I], iii, 2, ix, 2). 360 EPISTLES OF MANOSKLHAR. of the sacred twigs. 2. Such—although! they say that Z4d-sparam?, son of Yddan-Yim, as ordered, and the high-priests ave appointed, washing of this kind—/as appeared to my well-reflecting (hQ-min) opinion, apprehension, and appreciation very marvellous azd grave, and merely arumour. 3. And 2 is needful for me to keep those of the good religion in a// quarters of the country of Iran informed concerning the placing reliance upon their washing with the Bareshnim ceremony, and to make my own opinion clear also as regards the writings collected.
23. And 2 is needful for me to keep those of the good religion in a// quarters of the country of Iran informed concerning the placing reliance upon their washing with the Bareshnim ceremony, and to make my own opinion clear also as regards the writings collected. 4. And, first of all, about the indispensability of the Bareshnim ceremony I write several such copies of a well-matured writing of mine‘ as may even be new light to the intelligent. 5. That my opinion of the information provided by revelation, the decisions of high-priests, azd the teachings of those of the primitive faith is thus, that washing by the polluted with water is pollution for the life and spiritual life (ahv6)®; they render the material dody clean thereby, du¢ that which is known as the handiwork ° of the immortals, and is also professionally called the Bareshniim, when ¢here zs the protection of a ritual of various kinds, shall make the body clean from endless worldly attacks. 6. It is in the nine ablution seats (magakS)? and the furrow’, even with prayer, bull’s urine, water, 1 Reading amat, instead of the very similar word ham4t, ‘ever.’ 2 See the headings to Eps. I, II. 5 See App. IV. * Meaning this epistle. 5 Because it pollutes pure water, which is considered a sin. * Reading yadman; but it may be gadman, ‘glory,’ which is written in precisely the same manner. 7 See Ep. I, ix, 7. ® See Vend. IX, 21-28 (App. IV) EPISTLE III, 2-II. 361 and other appliances, and the ritual which is such as is declared in the teaching of revelation; and even now the purifiers, who are just as written about below, keep z¢ in use. 7. When there is a washing they wash just as in the well-teaching statements which are known as ¢hose of Médydk-mdh, of Afarg, and of Séshans!, or 2% the statement of one of those three teachings, or in the statement of one of the high-priests 6y whom those three teachings are declared as propriety, or has come unto me as the practice of those same three teachings dy those of the primitive faith. 8. I deem ¢hzs deliverance? one wholly approvable, and the washer zz a washing of that kind, with the BareshnQm ceremony—which is lawfully of that description—I consider as a purifier who is approvable. 9. And the polluted of every description, as above written, who ave obtained, for any indispensable reason whatever, a purifier, as adove written, whom even now various districts avd various places have appointed and approved, are able to wash with the Bareshnim ceremony as aéove written. 10. Then their washing fifteen times is no deliverance in any way, and to wash them quickly with the Bareshnim ceremony as above written is indispensable. 11. Owing to a washing of the same kind through the Bareshnim cevemony, as is intended, water, fire, and other ¢hzngs, not to provide care for which is un? ........ .. authorisedly is grievously sinful. ® See Ep. I, v, 1. 8 From pollution.
311. Owing to a washing of the same kind through the Bareshnim cevemony, as is intended, water, fire, and other ¢hzngs, not to provide care for which is un? ........ .. authorisedly is grievously sinful. ® See Ep. I, v, 1. 8 From pollution. * At this point there is a blank page in K35, and also in the MS. belonging to Mr. Tehmuras Dinshawji, which is supposed to be older; and one line is left blank in BK. It is not, however, 362 EPISTLES OF MANOsKfHAR. 12. When, on account of a cleansing through another washing, distinct from the Bareshnim ceremony, quite certain that any text is really missing, as this section can be read continuously and translated as follows, without much difficulty :—‘ Afar! from a washing of the same kind through the Bareshniim ceremony, as is intended, /here would be a grievous sin against water, fire, and other éhzngs, not to provide care for which would be unauthorised.’ If some folios of text are missing, as seems quite possible from the terms applied to this epistle in § 4, the question arises whether a portion of the missing text may be contained in the following fragment on the subject of the Bareshnim, which is appended to the passage (Ep. II, vi, 2—-ix, 7) interpolated in Dd. XXXVII, 33 in the MS. J :— ‘As it is declared in revelation that, ifa man who Aas chanted comes upon a corpse, whether a dog, or a fox, or a wolf, or a male, or a female, or any crea/ure on whose corpse it is possible ‘haf he may come, that good man becomes so that a man may become defiled by him, and it is necessary to wash the polluted one, so that it may not make him a sinner. In order that they may act so to the polluted one it is necessary to wash Arm, it is necessary to perform that Bareshnfim ceremony of the nine nights. If the man that is spoken of 4as worked about carrying the dead and contact with dead matter (n6ds4 hamA4lih), so that they know about his defilement to whom he comes, then he who has done this work 2 contact with dead matter becomes afterwards disabled for that worship of the sacred beings which they perform. So, also, some one says (compare Vend. VIII, 271-299), where in a wilderness (vy4van) are several priests (Asrfivé) and a man lies on the road, there he w4o carries the dead dody of the man who passes away— as those others remain and stand away helpless, without offerings of inward prayer (vigd vakhtag4n) over that person (kerp6) according to the religious way—Aaving washed his body, comes into the town and performs the nine nights’ Bareshnfm ceremony twice ; afterwards, his Gét6-kharid ceremonies (see Dd. LXXIX, 4) are performed, and he has acted well according to the religious way; then he comes into the ceremonial of the sacred beings. “ How are those men purified, O righteous one/ who shall stand up by a corpse which ts very dry and dead a year?” (See Pahl. Vend. VIII, 107, 108.) The reply is this, that “those men are purified ; EPISTLE Ill, 12-15. 363
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.
113. Written in propitiation, praise, and benediction of the creator Afhaymazd and the archangels, all the angels of the spiritual and the angels of the worldly existences, and every guardian spirit of the righteous. 14. Homage to the exalted pontiff (rad6) sent from the creator Athaymazd, the most heavenly of the heavenly, Zaratdst the Spitaman. 15. The (which includes the Yasna ceremonial) as directed in Pahl. Vend. IX, 132, 4, o (see App. IV). 1 It is possible also to read ‘in the teaching of the Avesta and Zand ;’ but this would ignore the fact that the ‘teaching’ is the Zand itself. 2 The same rival as is mentioned in Chap. V, 14. ® According to Dd. XLV, 5 the farm4dAr or ‘director’ of the profession of priests of Pars was the pésfip4t or ‘leader’ of the religion. 358 EPISTLES OF MANUOSKfHAR. most prayerful and gainful of things is righteousness; great and good and perfect is Zaratist; and one only is the way of righteousness, all the others are no ways}. 1 Compare Dd. XCIV, 14, Ep. III, 23. EPISTLE IIl. TO ALL OF THE GOOD RELIGION IN IRAN. Jn the name of the sacred beings. A copy of the notification (vishadakd) of hzs priestly lordship M4anfséthar, son of Yfid4n-Yim, regarding the grievous sinfulness of assuming the propriety of washing for fifteen times. Jn the name of the sacred beings. 1. It Aas come unto the ears (vasammifnisnd) of me, Mandséthar, son of Yidan-Yim, pontiff (rad) of Pars and Kirman’, that, in some quarters of the country of Iran, they whose chance happens 40 de so much? pollution, such as is decreed unto so much washing of the customary parts (ptsak6), always wash themselves fifteen times with bull’s urine and once with water, consider themselves as clean®, and go to water, fire; and ceremonial ablution, the ablution 1 See Dd. XCIV, 13. * Reading havan; but it may be ‘pollution of the spiritual life (ahv6),’ though this is hardly possible in the next phrase, where the same word occurs. * By confounding the preliminary washing appointed in Vend. VIII, 279 with the final washing appointed in Vend. VIII, 299 (see App. V, and compare Ep. I], iii, 2, ix, 2). 360 EPISTLES OF MANOSKLHAR. of the sacred twigs. 2. Such—although! they say that Z4d-sparam?, son of Yddan-Yim, as ordered, and the high-priests ave appointed, washing of this kind—/as appeared to my well-reflecting (hQ-min) opinion, apprehension, and appreciation very marvellous azd grave, and merely arumour. 3. And 2 is needful for me to keep those of the good religion in a// quarters of the country of Iran informed concerning the placing reliance upon their washing with the Bareshnim ceremony, and to make my own opinion clear also as regards the writings collected.
23. And 2 is needful for me to keep those of the good religion in a// quarters of the country of Iran informed concerning the placing reliance upon their washing with the Bareshnim ceremony, and to make my own opinion clear also as regards the writings collected. 4. And, first of all, about the indispensability of the Bareshnim ceremony I write several such copies of a well-matured writing of mine‘ as may even be new light to the intelligent. 5. That my opinion of the information provided by revelation, the decisions of high-priests, azd the teachings of those of the primitive faith is thus, that washing by the polluted with water is pollution for the life and spiritual life (ahv6)®; they render the material dody clean thereby, du¢ that which is known as the handiwork ° of the immortals, and is also professionally called the Bareshniim, when ¢here zs the protection of a ritual of various kinds, shall make the body clean from endless worldly attacks. 6. It is in the nine ablution seats (magakS)? and the furrow’, even with prayer, bull’s urine, water, 1 Reading amat, instead of the very similar word ham4t, ‘ever.’ 2 See the headings to Eps. I, II. 5 See App. IV. * Meaning this epistle. 5 Because it pollutes pure water, which is considered a sin. * Reading yadman; but it may be gadman, ‘glory,’ which is written in precisely the same manner. 7 See Ep. I, ix, 7. ® See Vend. IX, 21-28 (App. IV) EPISTLE III, 2-II. 361 and other appliances, and the ritual which is such as is declared in the teaching of revelation; and even now the purifiers, who are just as written about below, keep z¢ in use. 7. When there is a washing they wash just as in the well-teaching statements which are known as ¢hose of Médydk-mdh, of Afarg, and of Séshans!, or 2% the statement of one of those three teachings, or in the statement of one of the high-priests 6y whom those three teachings are declared as propriety, or has come unto me as the practice of those same three teachings dy those of the primitive faith. 8. I deem ¢hzs deliverance? one wholly approvable, and the washer zz a washing of that kind, with the BareshnQm ceremony—which is lawfully of that description—I consider as a purifier who is approvable. 9. And the polluted of every description, as above written, who ave obtained, for any indispensable reason whatever, a purifier, as adove written, whom even now various districts avd various places have appointed and approved, are able to wash with the Bareshnim ceremony as aéove written. 10. Then their washing fifteen times is no deliverance in any way, and to wash them quickly with the Bareshnim ceremony as above written is indispensable. 11. Owing to a washing of the same kind through the Bareshnim cevemony, as is intended, water, fire, and other ¢hzngs, not to provide care for which is un? ........ .. authorisedly is grievously sinful. ® See Ep. I, v, 1. 8 From pollution.
311. Owing to a washing of the same kind through the Bareshnim cevemony, as is intended, water, fire, and other ¢hzngs, not to provide care for which is un? ........ .. authorisedly is grievously sinful. ® See Ep. I, v, 1. 8 From pollution. * At this point there is a blank page in K35, and also in the MS. belonging to Mr. Tehmuras Dinshawji, which is supposed to be older; and one line is left blank in BK. It is not, however, 362 EPISTLES OF MANOsKfHAR. 12. When, on account of a cleansing through another washing, distinct from the Bareshnim ceremony, quite certain that any text is really missing, as this section can be read continuously and translated as follows, without much difficulty :—‘ Afar! from a washing of the same kind through the Bareshniim ceremony, as is intended, /here would be a grievous sin against water, fire, and other éhzngs, not to provide care for which would be unauthorised.’ If some folios of text are missing, as seems quite possible from the terms applied to this epistle in § 4, the question arises whether a portion of the missing text may be contained in the following fragment on the subject of the Bareshnim, which is appended to the passage (Ep. II, vi, 2—-ix, 7) interpolated in Dd. XXXVII, 33 in the MS. J :— ‘As it is declared in revelation that, ifa man who Aas chanted comes upon a corpse, whether a dog, or a fox, or a wolf, or a male, or a female, or any crea/ure on whose corpse it is possible ‘haf he may come, that good man becomes so that a man may become defiled by him, and it is necessary to wash the polluted one, so that it may not make him a sinner. In order that they may act so to the polluted one it is necessary to wash Arm, it is necessary to perform that Bareshnfim ceremony of the nine nights. If the man that is spoken of 4as worked about carrying the dead and contact with dead matter (n6ds4 hamA4lih), so that they know about his defilement to whom he comes, then he who has done this work 2 contact with dead matter becomes afterwards disabled for that worship of the sacred beings which they perform. So, also, some one says (compare Vend. VIII, 271-299), where in a wilderness (vy4van) are several priests (Asrfivé) and a man lies on the road, there he w4o carries the dead dody of the man who passes away— as those others remain and stand away helpless, without offerings of inward prayer (vigd vakhtag4n) over that person (kerp6) according to the religious way—Aaving washed his body, comes into the town and performs the nine nights’ Bareshnfm ceremony twice ; afterwards, his Gét6-kharid ceremonies (see Dd. LXXIX, 4) are performed, and he has acted well according to the religious way; then he comes into the ceremonial of the sacred beings. “ How are those men purified, O righteous one/ who shall stand up by a corpse which ts very dry and dead a year?” (See Pahl. Vend. VIII, 107, 108.) The reply is this, that “those men are purified ; EPISTLE Ill, 12-15. 363
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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