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1(See also Mkh. XXVII, 27-31, 58, 62, XLIV, 17-35, LXH, 13-19.) 5 Lp, B2g have ‘that mankind shou/d not put the girdle.’ * That is, two double knots, one before and the other behind (see SBE, vol. xviii, pp. 386, 387). 270 SAD DAR. 10. The first knot is that which preserves! constancy (qarar), and gives attestation as to the existence, unity, purity, and matchlessness of the sacred being, the good azd propitious. 11. The second knot is that which gives attestation ¢hat zt zs the good religion of the Mazda-worshippers which is the word of the sacred being. 12. The third knot is that which gives attestation as to the apostleship and mission (rasfli) in the just (‘haqq) Zaratust, the . Spitamén. 13. The fourth knot is that which adduces more pleasantly, gives assurance (iqrar), and openly accepts that I should think of good, speak of good, and de good. 14. And from the whole I become established; and the pure, good? religion is this, -that I persist in those vzews, 15. And, again, when the archangels came meeting Zaratust they likewise wore the sacred thread-girdle on the waist ; and the distinctive character¢stic (farq) amid the laws of the sacred being is the wearing of the sacred thread-girdle. 16. It is incumbent both on woman and on man, and it is altogether (albattah) .improper when they do not wear zz, Cuapter XI, 1. The eleventh subject is this, that it is necessary to maintain the fire-place® properly, and to keep watch‘, so that the fire shall not die out, and that nothing polluted and impure sa// attain to the fire; and it is necessary to make a menstruous woman avoid éecng within three steps of 77. 1 Altered into ‘brings’ by a later hand in La, and so written in Lp, Bzg. _ * Lp, Bzg omit ‘ good.’ ® Or, perhaps, ‘the house-fire.’ * B2g omits these four words, CHAPTER X, IO-XI, 7. 271 2. Because every time that they maintain a fire properly, which is within a dwelling, every fire which is in the earth of seven regions becomes pleased with those persons, and, when they ask a favour, or beg a necessity (‘hagat), it becomes quickly operative. 3. And every time that oxe does not maintain 2¢ properly, every fire which is in the earth of seven regions receives injury from that person, and the necessity he begs does not become operative. 4. If any one does not maintain the fire-place properly, if he gives a hundred dinars! to the fire Gusasp? ¢here is no acceptance of z#, and that sin does not depart from him. 5. For it is declared in revelation’, that the creator Hérmazd has given sovereignty in heaven to Ardibahist‘, the archangel, and has spoken thus: ‘4s Zo every one with whom thou art not pleased, do not let him escape into heaven.’ 6. And this is also declared in revelation, that, every time that they do not maintain the fire properly, pregnancy becomes scarcer for the women, fewer male children are born, and honour (‘hurmat) in the vicinity of the king becomes less for the men, and ¢here is no approbation (qabfl) of hey words.
2And this is also declared in revelation, that, every time that they do not maintain the fire properly, pregnancy becomes scarcer for the women, fewer male children are born, and honour (‘hurmat) in the vicinity of the king becomes less for the men, and ¢here is no approbation (qabfl) of hey words. 7. for every single fire which dies out in a dwelling a loss of three dirhams and two dings falls 1 The dinar is a gold coin which, if it contained a dirham weight of gold, and if the dirham were 63 grains (see Dd. LII, rn), was equal to about half-a-sovereign. ® One of the three most sacred fires (see Bd. XVII, 7). ® Lp, Bzg have ‘in the good religion.’ * Av. asha vahista, ‘perfect rectitude,’ who i is supposed to protect fire (see Bd. I, 26, Sls. XV, 12). _ 5 That is, three dirhams and a half in silver, or nearly one rupes and a quarter, ; 272 SAD DAR. on the property of that person, or it becomes the loss of this dwelling, or it does not reach him from the place whence wealth comes to him. CuapTer XII. 1. The twelfth subject is this, that, when any one dies, an order is necessary! ¢4a¢ how much soever scantier* clothing they are able to make a beginning of, the better they act. 2. Beside (illa)® something become old amd washed, anything new is not proper for the purpose that they may let zt go upon a dead body. 3. For in the commentary of the Vendidad* it asserts that, if they sha// pass on to a dead body as much as a woman’s spindle makes for a single thread, with the exception of that which is unavoidable, for every single thread a black snake hangs, in that other world, on to the liver of that person who has made a beginning of the clothing. 4. Likewise, that dead person becomes his antagonist (‘4a3m), and hangs similarly’ upon 42s skirt, and speaks thus: ‘This clothing, which thou hast put on my body, devours me, having become worms and noxious creatures. 5. JZ/y name was put upon a sacred cake®, the fourth day, with a Yast, so that ¢here ? Bag has ‘it is necessary to utter two orders.’ 2 Lp, B2g have ‘older. Compare Sls. XII, 4. 5 Lp, Bzg have ‘that is.’ ‘ Pahl. Vend. V, 170-1747, where, however, the penalty here mentioned is not now extant. 5 Lp, Bzg omit ‘similarly.’ ® Referring to the cake consecrated to the righteous guardian spirit on the fourth day after death (see Chap. LXXXVII, 2, Sls. III, 32n, XVII, 5 n). CHAPTER XII, I—XIII, 3. 273 might be alike a benefit therefrom for my soul, and it might be alike unnecessary for thee to bear this torment (‘hapH4b).’ 6. Owing to that, many sorrows come to that person, and he has no advantage from it. 7. Therefore, it is necessary to act with caution (ihtiy4t), so that, how much soever the clothing be scantier!, they may make a beginning of it.
3Owing to that, many sorrows come to that person, and he has no advantage from it. 7. Therefore, it is necessary to act with caution (ihtiy4t), so that, how much soever the clothing be scantier!, they may make a beginning of it. 8. And as many as shall be able to walk after the bier (tabdt) and corpse shall walk. 9. Because every step that they go after a corpse is a good work of three hundred stirs?; and every stir is four dirhams, in such manner that three hundred stirs: are a thousand and two hundred dirhams®. 10. For every single step ¢heve is thus much good work. Cuarter XIII. 1. The thirteenth subject is this, that it is necessary to maintain the souls of fathers, mothers, and relations properly. 2. And, when any day of theirs* occurs, it is necessary to make an endeavour, so that they may-accomplish the ceremonial (yazisn), the sacred feast (myazd), the consecration of the sacred cakes (drén), and the benedictions (4fring4n). 3. For it is declared in revelation, that, every time that any day of theirs occurs, they will bring with 1 Lp, Bzg, Jr5 have ‘older.’ 2 An amount which would counterbalance a Tan4var or Tanapahar sin (see Sls. I, 2). ’ Bzg omits these fourteen words. * That is, on the monthly and annual anniversaries of their deaths, when ceremonies are requisite (see Sls. XVII, 5 n). Compare Chap. XXXVIL. [24] T 274 "SAD DAR, themselves 9999 guardian spirits of the righteous, like that case when any one goes home himself, and brings people (qatim) in hospitality. 4. And, when they utter’ ¢he consecration of the sacred cakes and sacred feast and the benedictions, those people become joyful and utter blessings on that house and master of the house, and on the house-mistress and any persons who are in that house. 5. But if they do not celebrate the sacred feast, the consecration of the sacred cakes, the ceremonial, and the benedictions, she spirits will remain for them zn that place from dawn as long as the period of a day, and are maintaining a hope that ‘ perhaps they w7// have us im remembrance.’ 6. Then, if they do not bring them? zz¢o remembrance, the souls turn upwards from that place, go very quickly on high, and will say, ‘O creator Hérmazd! they do not know that we are such as we are’, and that it is necessary for them‘ to come into this world, and in this world they will not give any one acquittal. 7. For them there is need of the good works in consecrating the sacred cakes and celebrating the sacred feast and benedictions; there is no need of them for such as we. 8. Yet (va likin), if they would have maintained a place for the duty of those days, we should have turned away from them misfortunes of various kinds; but, as they have not maintained ® observance of us zm the day’s duty, we are not able to come in friendship ¢o this house.’
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(See also Mkh. XXVII, 27-31, 58, 62, XLIV, 17-35, LXH, 13-19.) 5 Lp, B2g have ‘that mankind shou/d not put the girdle.’ * That is, two double knots, one before and the other behind (see SBE, vol. xviii, pp. 386, 387). 270 SAD DAR. 10. The first knot is that which preserves! constancy (qarar), and gives attestation as to the existence, unity, purity, and matchlessness of the sacred being, the good azd propitious. 11. The second knot is that which gives attestation ¢hat zt zs the good religion of the Mazda-worshippers which is the word of the sacred being. 12. The third knot is that which gives attestation as to the apostleship and mission (rasfli) in the just (‘haqq) Zaratust, the . Spitamén. 13. The fourth knot is that which adduces more pleasantly, gives assurance (iqrar), and openly accepts that I should think of good, speak of good, and de good. 14. And from the whole I become established; and the pure, good? religion is this, -that I persist in those vzews, 15. And, again, when the archangels came meeting Zaratust they likewise wore the sacred thread-girdle on the waist ; and the distinctive character¢stic (farq) amid the laws of the sacred being is the wearing of the sacred thread-girdle. 16. It is incumbent both on woman and on man, and it is altogether (albattah) .improper when they do not wear zz, Cuapter XI, 1. The eleventh subject is this, that it is necessary to maintain the fire-place® properly, and to keep watch‘, so that the fire shall not die out, and that nothing polluted and impure sa// attain to the fire; and it is necessary to make a menstruous woman avoid éecng within three steps of 77. 1 Altered into ‘brings’ by a later hand in La, and so written in Lp, Bzg. _ * Lp, Bzg omit ‘ good.’ ® Or, perhaps, ‘the house-fire.’ * B2g omits these four words, CHAPTER X, IO-XI, 7. 271 2. Because every time that they maintain a fire properly, which is within a dwelling, every fire which is in the earth of seven regions becomes pleased with those persons, and, when they ask a favour, or beg a necessity (‘hagat), it becomes quickly operative. 3. And every time that oxe does not maintain 2¢ properly, every fire which is in the earth of seven regions receives injury from that person, and the necessity he begs does not become operative. 4. If any one does not maintain the fire-place properly, if he gives a hundred dinars! to the fire Gusasp? ¢here is no acceptance of z#, and that sin does not depart from him. 5. For it is declared in revelation’, that the creator Hérmazd has given sovereignty in heaven to Ardibahist‘, the archangel, and has spoken thus: ‘4s Zo every one with whom thou art not pleased, do not let him escape into heaven.’ 6. And this is also declared in revelation, that, every time that they do not maintain the fire properly, pregnancy becomes scarcer for the women, fewer male children are born, and honour (‘hurmat) in the vicinity of the king becomes less for the men, and ¢here is no approbation (qabfl) of hey words.
2And this is also declared in revelation, that, every time that they do not maintain the fire properly, pregnancy becomes scarcer for the women, fewer male children are born, and honour (‘hurmat) in the vicinity of the king becomes less for the men, and ¢here is no approbation (qabfl) of hey words. 7. for every single fire which dies out in a dwelling a loss of three dirhams and two dings falls 1 The dinar is a gold coin which, if it contained a dirham weight of gold, and if the dirham were 63 grains (see Dd. LII, rn), was equal to about half-a-sovereign. ® One of the three most sacred fires (see Bd. XVII, 7). ® Lp, Bzg have ‘in the good religion.’ * Av. asha vahista, ‘perfect rectitude,’ who i is supposed to protect fire (see Bd. I, 26, Sls. XV, 12). _ 5 That is, three dirhams and a half in silver, or nearly one rupes and a quarter, ; 272 SAD DAR. on the property of that person, or it becomes the loss of this dwelling, or it does not reach him from the place whence wealth comes to him. CuapTer XII. 1. The twelfth subject is this, that, when any one dies, an order is necessary! ¢4a¢ how much soever scantier* clothing they are able to make a beginning of, the better they act. 2. Beside (illa)® something become old amd washed, anything new is not proper for the purpose that they may let zt go upon a dead body. 3. For in the commentary of the Vendidad* it asserts that, if they sha// pass on to a dead body as much as a woman’s spindle makes for a single thread, with the exception of that which is unavoidable, for every single thread a black snake hangs, in that other world, on to the liver of that person who has made a beginning of the clothing. 4. Likewise, that dead person becomes his antagonist (‘4a3m), and hangs similarly’ upon 42s skirt, and speaks thus: ‘This clothing, which thou hast put on my body, devours me, having become worms and noxious creatures. 5. JZ/y name was put upon a sacred cake®, the fourth day, with a Yast, so that ¢here ? Bag has ‘it is necessary to utter two orders.’ 2 Lp, B2g have ‘older. Compare Sls. XII, 4. 5 Lp, Bzg have ‘that is.’ ‘ Pahl. Vend. V, 170-1747, where, however, the penalty here mentioned is not now extant. 5 Lp, Bzg omit ‘similarly.’ ® Referring to the cake consecrated to the righteous guardian spirit on the fourth day after death (see Chap. LXXXVII, 2, Sls. III, 32n, XVII, 5 n). CHAPTER XII, I—XIII, 3. 273 might be alike a benefit therefrom for my soul, and it might be alike unnecessary for thee to bear this torment (‘hapH4b).’ 6. Owing to that, many sorrows come to that person, and he has no advantage from it. 7. Therefore, it is necessary to act with caution (ihtiy4t), so that, how much soever the clothing be scantier!, they may make a beginning of it.
3Owing to that, many sorrows come to that person, and he has no advantage from it. 7. Therefore, it is necessary to act with caution (ihtiy4t), so that, how much soever the clothing be scantier!, they may make a beginning of it. 8. And as many as shall be able to walk after the bier (tabdt) and corpse shall walk. 9. Because every step that they go after a corpse is a good work of three hundred stirs?; and every stir is four dirhams, in such manner that three hundred stirs: are a thousand and two hundred dirhams®. 10. For every single step ¢heve is thus much good work. Cuarter XIII. 1. The thirteenth subject is this, that it is necessary to maintain the souls of fathers, mothers, and relations properly. 2. And, when any day of theirs* occurs, it is necessary to make an endeavour, so that they may-accomplish the ceremonial (yazisn), the sacred feast (myazd), the consecration of the sacred cakes (drén), and the benedictions (4fring4n). 3. For it is declared in revelation, that, every time that any day of theirs occurs, they will bring with 1 Lp, Bzg, Jr5 have ‘older.’ 2 An amount which would counterbalance a Tan4var or Tanapahar sin (see Sls. I, 2). ’ Bzg omits these fourteen words. * That is, on the monthly and annual anniversaries of their deaths, when ceremonies are requisite (see Sls. XVII, 5 n). Compare Chap. XXXVIL. [24] T 274 "SAD DAR, themselves 9999 guardian spirits of the righteous, like that case when any one goes home himself, and brings people (qatim) in hospitality. 4. And, when they utter’ ¢he consecration of the sacred cakes and sacred feast and the benedictions, those people become joyful and utter blessings on that house and master of the house, and on the house-mistress and any persons who are in that house. 5. But if they do not celebrate the sacred feast, the consecration of the sacred cakes, the ceremonial, and the benedictions, she spirits will remain for them zn that place from dawn as long as the period of a day, and are maintaining a hope that ‘ perhaps they w7// have us im remembrance.’ 6. Then, if they do not bring them? zz¢o remembrance, the souls turn upwards from that place, go very quickly on high, and will say, ‘O creator Hérmazd! they do not know that we are such as we are’, and that it is necessary for them‘ to come into this world, and in this world they will not give any one acquittal. 7. For them there is need of the good works in consecrating the sacred cakes and celebrating the sacred feast and benedictions; there is no need of them for such as we. 8. Yet (va likin), if they would have maintained a place for the duty of those days, we should have turned away from them misfortunes of various kinds; but, as they have not maintained ® observance of us zm the day’s duty, we are not able to come in friendship ¢o this house.’
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