27. A miscellaneous section of the same: a warm bath,
exertion of a horse, precautions with regard to fire
when cooking and travelling, picketing a horse, food
of men, fire, and cattle; hospitality, clothes, a street-
keeper; (§ 10) providing in summer for the winter,
reaping, union for good purposes, produce of plants
and animals, property of nobles and the multitude,
envy among animals and people . . . .90
28. A6rpati8tSn section of the Hdsp&ram Nask: providing
for a priestly assembly, the priest and his disciple,
district priest to be appointed, five dispositions of
priests, enquiry into concealed parentage of a priest,
his accountability for sin, worry in forming a priestly
assembly, relative superiority of priests . . .92
29. Nirangist&n section of the same: ritual and priests for
the ceremonial, the sacred cake, abstaining from wine,
recitation of Avesta, the ceremonial when the priest is a
Tanipiihar sinner, priestship of a woman or child, he
who is cursed, season-festivals and periods of the day ;
(§11) sacrifice of a sheep, stations of the priests, the
perfect ceremonial, sacred shirt and girdle, sacred
twigs, firewood, ceremonials of various grades, celebra-
tions of the. ceremonies; (§21) cleanliness of the cele-
brator, place, and apparatus ; ceremony of the waters,
and other particulars; families of Zaratilrt, Hvdv, and
Vift&sp 94
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30. GdhaitkistSn section of the same: superiority; selling
property of another, cattle, slaves, and without war-
^^^^^yi (§ 9) houses and clothing used during con-
tagious sickness, fatal or otherwise, famOy alliance
with foreigners, sheep of good breed • '97
31. A miscellaneous section of the same: stealing, religious
instruction, oppression and deceit, reducing liberality,
limit of a wife's liberality, a bride going to her husband's
house, quarrels in wedlock, menstruation, foreigners
seeking wives ; (§ 9) birth and care of a son, injurious
things that must be kept, those who must not punish,
rejoicing and gifts at a birth, naming the child, breed-
ing sheep and dogs; (§ 20) fees for priesdy duties,
guardianship of a child, sickness from evil eye or
touching a menstruous woman, fearfulness, supplies,
produce of property, duties of judges ; (§ 30) creation
and production of com, excitement due to blood,
ownership, land-grabbing, supplies sold in distress,
supremacy of sin, atonement for various sins; (§42)
the oppressor, greed, the weak man should be good . 99
32. Another section of the same : about an ordeal . .105
33. Another section of the same : mad animals and their
care 105
34. A miscellaneous section of the same : amassing property,
arrangiog marriages for one's children, portioning
daughters, righteous gifts, an Ir&nian vainly asking
reward for assisting foreigners in batde, offering up
of water; (§ 10) best and worst actions, heinous sins,
various sins, assisting foreigners, destroying plants,
digging a grave, clothing a corpse ; defiling fire, water,
or people; about water, damage by water or fire;
preventing misery and adversity . . .106
35. Another section of the same : seeking and begetting a
son, conception, tokens of sex, development of fetus ;
period of gestation and birth, period of determination
of sex, childbirth and care of child; (§ 10) periods of
gestation in various animals, spiritual perceptions of
the child, habits tending to beauty, evils of unnatural
intercourse and adultery; increased and diminished
vigour of the female and male, respectively . . .109
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36. Another section of the same : ownership and litigation
about property; earnings, family guardianship and
income ; about wives, adoption, partnership of
brothers, inheritance, and giving in marriage . .112
37. Another section of the same : daily food of men, women,
children, and dogs ; religious conversion, association
of various kinds, sins of falsehood and extortion,
atonement for deprival of food, necessary debt;
(§ 14) physicians, medical treatment and fees; (§ 30)
suitability for trust, unauthorised dwellings, boun-
daries, testimony of the orthodox and heterodox,
priestly dwellings, abode of fires, water oozing and
flowing, works on a frontier ; (§ 40) sheep trespassing,
animals' food, distance of house from river, grazing
sheep, felling trees, slaughtering, defensive clothing,
migration during war, waters reverenced by a tra-
veller, obedience of disciple to priest ; (§ 50) frontier
war, various advantages 114
38. One of the first 30 sections of the Sakd^/Cbn Nask:
future reward and punishment, necessity of seeking
the good law and scrutinizing actions, noticing a fire,
intentional injury, extent of the fire's light, size of its
sanctuary door, care and food of a new-bom child,
keeping a cooking-pot pure ; (§ 1 1) proper bed-places,
curing defective sight, workmen and women, giving
no food thrice and four times, care of anything pointed
and of all utensils, injury by a door, washing the head
and shaving; (§21) custodians and rules of a market,
giving forth pointed things and victuals lawfully and
unlawfully, horse-courses and manoeuvres, admitting
listeners, making and tying the sacred girdle, scratch-
ing with the nails, care of fire when travelling; (§ 29)
panic at night among warriors, marching in fear or
fearlessly, demanding a share, care of firewood,
warming bull's urine, selecting pasture, farm-houses,
interference with the seizure of catde, hanging things
up, stabling horses; (§ 40) cutting trees, washing
clothes, walking in, passing through water, canals
and fords; (§ 52) two warriors marching, sin of
eating on the road, remedies for cattle, their breeding.
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removing an ox that steals hay, danger from ill-
omened speaking, a father's sin owing to his diild's
misbehaviour ; (§ 60) gathering medicinal herbs, feast-
ing with idolators, atonement for starving, ordeals,
religious secrets, evil-speaking to others' wives, extent
of communities, habits of Frashdftar and (rdm&sp . 121
39. /^^akdnistin section of the same : sequestration 'of
property, sheep, horses, cattle, and their young, milk,
and wool; their shelter and ill-treatment; (§ 11)
handing over sheep to the sequestrator and his re-
sponsibility, a free sheep among those seized, the
killing of a seized sheep, particulars of a seized
animal to be stated when it is kept with others, care
of a man wounded in slaughtering, gain of a seques-
trator of animals in various circumstances; (§ 17)
treasure found in various places and at various depths
of earth and water; (§ 24) nourishing a seized sheep,
disputes as to its identity, keeping it in the mountains,
and other details ....... 131
40. ZtySnakisttn section of the same : duty of protecting
animate and inanimate existences, and sin of injuring
them ; a damaged gift or animal, inanimate property
and its increase, merit of not rejecting a damaged
article 136
41. Vakhshist&n, one of the last 22 sections of the same:
atonement, compensation, active and existent increase,
increase upon increases, righteous gills, interest simple
and compound, how loans are treated on the death
of lender or debtor; (§ 10) retribution, penalty for
inefficient breeding of animals, animals' milk and
hair, males preferable to females, an injured camel,
improved dog or pig, buying up supplies too much ;
(§ 20) giving away necessary clothing, penalty for
deprival of food, litigation about debts, unauthorised
supplies, multiplication of sheep and other details,
loans and repayment by instalments, seizure of slaves
to work off a debt ; (§ 30) seizure of a cloak or a
water-skin, increase of grains and sheep, seizure of
clothes and implements, produce of land and orna-
ments 138
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42. Varist&n section of the same: trial and execution of a
wizard, tria] by ordeal, and particulars about ordeals . 144
43. A miscellaneous section of the same: assistants, wealth
causing imprisonment, confession, disciple and master,
penalties, sins owing to the wrathful, an unjust judge
and one of long experience ; (§ 10) a daughter con-
trolled by parents and one without a guardian, be-
queathing property, sin of declining adoption, property
of a liberal man and of a damsel, a damsel taken by
an idolator and offered to a Ma3</a-worshipper, a
mother being guardian of her son's father, providing
a high-priest ; (§ 20) sin of not providing a husband
for an adult daughter, inadvertent sin, worst demon-
service and sins, furtherances and destroyers of the
world, truth that is wicked, driving spiritual benefit
from the world, three kinds of righteous men, sin of
defiling water and fire; merit of removing dead
matter of men, dogs, and reptiles from water ; rep-
tiles may be killed in water, but must be removed
to gratify the earth-spirit and vex the demons ; (§ 30)
a well-managed drinking-party, the sin of him who
leaves it uproariously, animals produced from the
sole-created ox, offerings to the sacred beings;
injury to the world by fiends, idolators, and wolves ;
the necessity of destroying them, advice not to rever-
ence the evil spirits, nor to chatter unseasonably, the
advantage of the ceremonial of the sacred beings . 145
44. Vendtdi^/ Nask: corresponding with the contents of
fargar^fe I-XI, XIII-XXII 152
45. H&^/6kht Nask : recital of Ahunavair, high-priests,
21 chieftainships, duties at periods of the day,
season-festivals, superiors, membership of the com-
munity, prayers at eating, recitations, invocation,
devotion; (§ 10) good attributes and qualities, dili-
gence, righteousness, the chief resource of the
creatures, sayings full of humility . • . .166
46. St6^-yart Nask 169
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CHAT. r/uam
1. Introductory 172
2. Sii^/kar Nask, fargarif i. Use of various repetitions of
the Ahunavair, and the division of the Nasks accord- ing to its lines 172
3. Same, fargari/ 2. The Ashem-vohA . . . -175
4. Same, fargar^ 3. Formation, decline, and death of
human beings; illiberal opulence • . . • 175
5. Same, fargarif 4. The utilisers and misusers of life,
the latter being the defects of Dah&k; the vices
driven away by Yim, what is to be avoided, the dis-
tresser and the distressed, and the mode of relieving
the latter 177
6. Same, fargarif 5. Forgetfulness of kinsfolk and un-
forgetfiilness of the G&thic spirit, complaint and power of that spirit 178
7. Same, fargarif 6. The five excellences, distribution and
acquirement of fortune, grief of an old man, things
to be amassed in youth, storeholders of excellence,
how one should drink and eat . . • . 179
8. Same, fargarif 7. The four periods in ZaratCLrt's mil-
lenium • • • 180
9. Same, hrgBid 8. Abstinence from sins due to rever-
ence for the arch-demons, chattering while eating,
prayer and purity at meals, loss of merit from want
of a priest, proper times for the ceremonials of
various sacred beings 181
10. Same, fargar^ 9. Heinous sinfulness of sodomy • .185
11. Same, fargar^ 10. Complaint of fire against seven
kinds of people who injure it; (§ 10) proper and
improper fire, its wish to leave the world resisted,
attention to it is the best worship, the righteous are
to be pleased and not vexed 186
12. Same, fargar^ 11. Petition of fire for removal to the
sky or to Air&n-v^, the propitious fire Gilm-a^;
reward of the promoters of fire, and sin of its in-
jurers; (§ 10) evil of maintaining fire by extortion,
and of neglecting it; all food to be consecrated,
opposition of the fiend to worship, three grades of
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ceremonial, sin of not reciting the Gfithas, coming
of the demon of death, disbeKef of the wicked ;
(§ 20) mourning for the dead prohibited, dififerent
desires of body and soul, self-injury of a liar, sin
of employing or being an improper Z6ti, controllers
of sin; (f 30) wounders to be brought before four
priests, promises not to be broken . . • .189
1 3. Same, fargar^/ i a. Advantage of satisfying water, impure
recitation, impurity of greed, birds kill snakes, effec-
tual invocation, goodness of archangels and ZaratilLrt,
gifts to his disciples i95
14. Same, fargar</ 13. The spirit of the sacred cake attacks
demons when the cake is consecrated, men who pray
are righteous if not deceitful, a heinous sin no ob-
literator of other sin 196
15. Same, fargar^/ 14. The torment of Keresdsp's soul,
notwithstanding his heroic deeds, owing to smiting
the fire which opposes his soul, though befriended by
G6x-aiirvan, until ZaratCLrt intercedes • . •197
16. Same, fargar^/ 15. Proceedings of the demon of death,
the soul alone sees the events of the spiritual state,
treatment of the corpse and misery of its conscious-
ness ; (§ 9) worldly happiness seldom lasts a century,
ordainable supplies, the seven immortal rulers in
Khvantras 199
17. Same, fargar^ 16. Bridge-judgment of sinners, merit
of certain good works, punishment of certain sinners, G&thas for an ordeal ...... 204
18. Same, fargar^/ 17. Where seven particular classes of
sinners have to go 206
19. Same, fargar</ 18. Pregnancy of the fiend due to certain
sins ; the soul blesses the body when righteous, and
curses it when wicked; proper times for reciting the
Ahunavair and Ashem, the corruption of the wicked . 206
20. Same, fargar^/ 19. The souls praise a virtuous high-
priest, miseries of hell, the J^invzJ bridge, promises
not to be broken, not even those to a courtezan, in
which case the penalty is childlessness in hell • • 209
