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14. While mankind are living, it becomes every year a further benefit. 5. Sin is also, a like manner, going on to a head every year; and when they accomplish repentance, so that it may not increase further, it is just like a tree that becomes withered, and they extirpate its further growth. 6. And that repentance is better which they accomplish before high-priests and sfzvztual chiefs, and when they accomplish the retribution that the highpriest orders every sin that exists departs from them. 7. The repentance ¢hat high-priests accomplish they likewise call repentance®. 8. If there be no highpriest it is necessary to go before some persons who are commissioned éy high-priests ; and if those, also, do not exist, it is necessary to go to a man who zsa friend of the soul, azd to accomplish the repentance. 1 Lp, Bzg have ‘ for.’ * Here and throughout the rest of the chapter Bzg has patit, ‘renunciation of sn,’ instead of taibat. The outward form of repentance consists of the recitation of the patit, in which all imaginable sins are mentioned and renounced. CHAPTER XLV, I-XLVI, 2. 309 9. At the time when oze shall depart from the world it is incumbent on sons and daughters and relations, that they give repentance into the mouth of the afflicted one, and that they give the Ashemvohi! into Azs mouth. 10. For the high-priests have said that, when they have accomplished repentance because they have committed many sins, they do not arrive in hell, dv¢ they administer punishment to them at the head of the Kinvad bridge, and afterwards conduct ¢hem to their own place. 11. Repentance is that when they accomplish repentance of the sin which they have committed, and do not commit that sin a second “me; if they do commit z¢, that first sim then comes back? Cuarter XLVI. 1. The forty-sixth subject is this, that, when people become fourteen years of age, it is necessary to tie on the sacred thread-girdle®, because the highpriests have said that it is likewise necessary to take into account those nine months that they have been - in the womb of the mother. 2. For in our religion there is no duty better than wearing the sacred thread-girdle, and it is incumbent 1 See Chap. VII, 1 n. 2 That is, repentance is not a mere penance, but requires a change of will, a veritable renunciation of that sin for the future; otherwise it is useless. * See Chap. X, which mentions fifteen years in accordance with Vend. XVIII, 115,120. But Sls. X, 13 recommends fourteen years and three months as more prudent, no doubt for the reason stated here in the text. 310 SAD DAR. on man and woman. 3. And, in former days, if any one should have become completely fifteen years of age, and should not have worn the sacred threadgirdle, they would have done for him by stoning, as bread and water are forbidden (‘har4m) for him. CuarTteR XLVII.
2310 SAD DAR. on man and woman. 3. And, in former days, if any one should have become completely fifteen years of age, and should not have worn the sacred threadgirdle, they would have done for him by stoning, as bread and water are forbidden (‘har4m) for him. CuarTteR XLVII. 1. The forty-seventh subject is this, that, when a child of seven years shall die, an order is necessary that it is requisite to perform a ceremony (yast) for Srésh! on account of it, avd to consecrate the sacred cake of the fourth night?. 2. For it says in revelation that the-souls of children go with the souls of ¢hey fathers and mothers ; if the father is 7¢ for heaven the child goes to heaven with him, if he be /¢ for hell it arrives in hell; if the mother be /¢ for heaven it reaches heaven with her, if she be /¢ for hell it reaches hell with her’, . 3. Therefore, every time that they accomplish the ceremony for Srésh, the soul of that child becomes separated from the souls of z¢s father and mother, and goes to heaven, and is imploring intercession (sifa’hat) for z¢s father and mother in the presence of the sacred beings in that other world. 1 See Mkh., II, 115 n. * That is, most of the ceremonies requisite after the death of an adult, as detailed in Chap. LXXXVII, are also to be performed in this case, for the reason here given. * Lp omits these twenty-three words, CHAPTER XLVI, 3—XLIX, I. 31Tf Cuaprer XLVIII4 1. The forty-eighth subject is this, that, when they boil a cooking-pot, it is necessary to make the water two parts of one-third cach, that one-third of the rot may be empty ; so that, if a¢ any time the pot shall boil, the water shall not go to the top, 2. For if they do not act so, and the® water, owing to not stopping, goes into the fire‘, it is a sin of a thousand and two hundred dirhams zz weight®; therefore it is necessary to keep watch that this sin does not arise. CuaPTter XLIX®. 1. The forty-ninth subject is this, that, when one 1 There is some confusion in the MSS. as to the arrangement of a few of the following chapters. The order here adopted is that of Bzg, J1g, which is here in accordance with the metrical MSS., although Chaps. 48-56 are numbered 52-60 in the latter, owing to variations in the earlier part of the work. In La Chaps. 48-50 have been originally omitted, but part of 48, prefixed to a portion of 50, has been afterwards inserted in the margin, and Chap. 49 has been similarly added after the last chapter in the book. In Lp the chapters are arranged as follows :—48, 51-53, 49, 54, 56, while go, 55 are omitted. * Lp, Bzg, J15 add ‘and the water not go into the fire.’ La, Lp add ‘aé least one-third should be water [¢# such a manner that it becomes wet from ear to ear. It is necessary to keep the mouth continually closed, so that the water shai/ not go into the mouth],’ but the passage in brackets is clearly a portion of Chap. L, 2, 3; it was originally written also in J1g, but has been struck out of that MS.
3It is necessary to keep the mouth continually closed, so that the water shai/ not go into the mouth],’ but the passage in brackets is clearly a portion of Chap. L, 2, 3; it was originally written also in J1g, but has been struck out of that MS. 5 La has ‘if a drop of.’ * La has ‘mouth;’ the passage in that MS. being evidently the end of Chap. L, 3. 5 La has ‘of three hundred stirs,’ as in Chap. L, 3, and omits the rest of the text. The two amounts are identical, and are equivalent to a TanAvar or Tandpfhar sin (see Sls. I, 2). ® Inserted in La after the last chapter in the book, and numbered C. In Lp it is numbered LII. 312 SAD DAR. gathers up a fire, it is requisite to leave z¢ for a time, so that the ash-bed (bam) of the fire may become cold; afterwards, one zs to take z¢ up and carry 7¢ to the precinct of fire. 2. It is not proper that they carry the ash-bed (zamtn) of a hot fire to the precinct of fire; so far is notorious. , CuaptTer L} 1, The fiftieth subject is this, that, every day at dawn, when they rise up from sleep, it is not proper to wash the hands first with water. 2. The ceremonial ablution is to wash the hands, face, nose, eyes, and feet thoroughly, either with fruit (mtvah)? or some grass upon which no water has come; afterwards, to make ¢hem dry, and to wash ¢hem three times with water zz such a manner that it becomes wet from the face as far as the ear’. 3. It is necessary to keep the mouth closed, so that the water sia// not go into the mouth ; for if a drop, owing to not stopping, goes into the mouth, it is a sin of three hundred stirs*, 4. Afterwards, one zs to wash the hands three times with water, as far as the upper arms; first the right hand, avd afterwards the left hand; and, zz like manner, 4e zs to wash the right foot and left foot. ? Omitted in La, Lp, though the former contains a portion of this chapter annexed to part of Chap. XLVIII, and most of its contents are repeated, in other words, in Chap, LXXIV. * Perhaps mivah may be taken as an adjective from my, ‘ hair ;’ in which case we should have ‘ with some¢hing either hairy or grassy.’ According to the long-metre Sad Dar, the liquid to be used for this first wetting is either goat’s or bull’s urine. _ * La has ‘from ear to ear’ (see Chap. XLVIII, 1 n). * A Tan4var or Tanptihar sin (see Sls. I, 2). CHAPTER XLIX, 2-LI, 6. 313 5. Then they recite the Kem-n4-mazd4’, for, every time that they wish to recite anything as an znward prayer, it is necessary that the hands be washed with ceremonial ablution?, and, if they are not, the Avesta is not accepted, and the fiend of corruption (nasus) does not rush away, and it becomes a TanAvar sin. Cuatter LI.
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14. While mankind are living, it becomes every year a further benefit. 5. Sin is also, a like manner, going on to a head every year; and when they accomplish repentance, so that it may not increase further, it is just like a tree that becomes withered, and they extirpate its further growth. 6. And that repentance is better which they accomplish before high-priests and sfzvztual chiefs, and when they accomplish the retribution that the highpriest orders every sin that exists departs from them. 7. The repentance ¢hat high-priests accomplish they likewise call repentance®. 8. If there be no highpriest it is necessary to go before some persons who are commissioned éy high-priests ; and if those, also, do not exist, it is necessary to go to a man who zsa friend of the soul, azd to accomplish the repentance. 1 Lp, Bzg have ‘ for.’ * Here and throughout the rest of the chapter Bzg has patit, ‘renunciation of sn,’ instead of taibat. The outward form of repentance consists of the recitation of the patit, in which all imaginable sins are mentioned and renounced. CHAPTER XLV, I-XLVI, 2. 309 9. At the time when oze shall depart from the world it is incumbent on sons and daughters and relations, that they give repentance into the mouth of the afflicted one, and that they give the Ashemvohi! into Azs mouth. 10. For the high-priests have said that, when they have accomplished repentance because they have committed many sins, they do not arrive in hell, dv¢ they administer punishment to them at the head of the Kinvad bridge, and afterwards conduct ¢hem to their own place. 11. Repentance is that when they accomplish repentance of the sin which they have committed, and do not commit that sin a second “me; if they do commit z¢, that first sim then comes back? Cuarter XLVI. 1. The forty-sixth subject is this, that, when people become fourteen years of age, it is necessary to tie on the sacred thread-girdle®, because the highpriests have said that it is likewise necessary to take into account those nine months that they have been - in the womb of the mother. 2. For in our religion there is no duty better than wearing the sacred thread-girdle, and it is incumbent 1 See Chap. VII, 1 n. 2 That is, repentance is not a mere penance, but requires a change of will, a veritable renunciation of that sin for the future; otherwise it is useless. * See Chap. X, which mentions fifteen years in accordance with Vend. XVIII, 115,120. But Sls. X, 13 recommends fourteen years and three months as more prudent, no doubt for the reason stated here in the text. 310 SAD DAR. on man and woman. 3. And, in former days, if any one should have become completely fifteen years of age, and should not have worn the sacred threadgirdle, they would have done for him by stoning, as bread and water are forbidden (‘har4m) for him. CuarTteR XLVII.
2310 SAD DAR. on man and woman. 3. And, in former days, if any one should have become completely fifteen years of age, and should not have worn the sacred threadgirdle, they would have done for him by stoning, as bread and water are forbidden (‘har4m) for him. CuarTteR XLVII. 1. The forty-seventh subject is this, that, when a child of seven years shall die, an order is necessary that it is requisite to perform a ceremony (yast) for Srésh! on account of it, avd to consecrate the sacred cake of the fourth night?. 2. For it says in revelation that the-souls of children go with the souls of ¢hey fathers and mothers ; if the father is 7¢ for heaven the child goes to heaven with him, if he be /¢ for hell it arrives in hell; if the mother be /¢ for heaven it reaches heaven with her, if she be /¢ for hell it reaches hell with her’, . 3. Therefore, every time that they accomplish the ceremony for Srésh, the soul of that child becomes separated from the souls of z¢s father and mother, and goes to heaven, and is imploring intercession (sifa’hat) for z¢s father and mother in the presence of the sacred beings in that other world. 1 See Mkh., II, 115 n. * That is, most of the ceremonies requisite after the death of an adult, as detailed in Chap. LXXXVII, are also to be performed in this case, for the reason here given. * Lp omits these twenty-three words, CHAPTER XLVI, 3—XLIX, I. 31Tf Cuaprer XLVIII4 1. The forty-eighth subject is this, that, when they boil a cooking-pot, it is necessary to make the water two parts of one-third cach, that one-third of the rot may be empty ; so that, if a¢ any time the pot shall boil, the water shall not go to the top, 2. For if they do not act so, and the® water, owing to not stopping, goes into the fire‘, it is a sin of a thousand and two hundred dirhams zz weight®; therefore it is necessary to keep watch that this sin does not arise. CuaPTter XLIX®. 1. The forty-ninth subject is this, that, when one 1 There is some confusion in the MSS. as to the arrangement of a few of the following chapters. The order here adopted is that of Bzg, J1g, which is here in accordance with the metrical MSS., although Chaps. 48-56 are numbered 52-60 in the latter, owing to variations in the earlier part of the work. In La Chaps. 48-50 have been originally omitted, but part of 48, prefixed to a portion of 50, has been afterwards inserted in the margin, and Chap. 49 has been similarly added after the last chapter in the book. In Lp the chapters are arranged as follows :—48, 51-53, 49, 54, 56, while go, 55 are omitted. * Lp, Bzg, J15 add ‘and the water not go into the fire.’ La, Lp add ‘aé least one-third should be water [¢# such a manner that it becomes wet from ear to ear. It is necessary to keep the mouth continually closed, so that the water shai/ not go into the mouth],’ but the passage in brackets is clearly a portion of Chap. L, 2, 3; it was originally written also in J1g, but has been struck out of that MS.
3It is necessary to keep the mouth continually closed, so that the water shai/ not go into the mouth],’ but the passage in brackets is clearly a portion of Chap. L, 2, 3; it was originally written also in J1g, but has been struck out of that MS. 5 La has ‘if a drop of.’ * La has ‘mouth;’ the passage in that MS. being evidently the end of Chap. L, 3. 5 La has ‘of three hundred stirs,’ as in Chap. L, 3, and omits the rest of the text. The two amounts are identical, and are equivalent to a TanAvar or Tandpfhar sin (see Sls. I, 2). ® Inserted in La after the last chapter in the book, and numbered C. In Lp it is numbered LII. 312 SAD DAR. gathers up a fire, it is requisite to leave z¢ for a time, so that the ash-bed (bam) of the fire may become cold; afterwards, one zs to take z¢ up and carry 7¢ to the precinct of fire. 2. It is not proper that they carry the ash-bed (zamtn) of a hot fire to the precinct of fire; so far is notorious. , CuaptTer L} 1, The fiftieth subject is this, that, every day at dawn, when they rise up from sleep, it is not proper to wash the hands first with water. 2. The ceremonial ablution is to wash the hands, face, nose, eyes, and feet thoroughly, either with fruit (mtvah)? or some grass upon which no water has come; afterwards, to make ¢hem dry, and to wash ¢hem three times with water zz such a manner that it becomes wet from the face as far as the ear’. 3. It is necessary to keep the mouth closed, so that the water sia// not go into the mouth ; for if a drop, owing to not stopping, goes into the mouth, it is a sin of three hundred stirs*, 4. Afterwards, one zs to wash the hands three times with water, as far as the upper arms; first the right hand, avd afterwards the left hand; and, zz like manner, 4e zs to wash the right foot and left foot. ? Omitted in La, Lp, though the former contains a portion of this chapter annexed to part of Chap. XLVIII, and most of its contents are repeated, in other words, in Chap, LXXIV. * Perhaps mivah may be taken as an adjective from my, ‘ hair ;’ in which case we should have ‘ with some¢hing either hairy or grassy.’ According to the long-metre Sad Dar, the liquid to be used for this first wetting is either goat’s or bull’s urine. _ * La has ‘from ear to ear’ (see Chap. XLVIII, 1 n). * A Tan4var or Tanptihar sin (see Sls. I, 2). CHAPTER XLIX, 2-LI, 6. 313 5. Then they recite the Kem-n4-mazd4’, for, every time that they wish to recite anything as an znward prayer, it is necessary that the hands be washed with ceremonial ablution?, and, if they are not, the Avesta is not accepted, and the fiend of corruption (nasus) does not rush away, and it becomes a TanAvar sin. Cuatter LI.
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