________________
IV. ZEND FRAGMENTS.
271
hãm-yâsaiti.—[The man in whom falsehood and purity] "meet equally" (=Yasna XXXIII, 1 c). .
*If the merits outweigh the sins by three Srðsho-karanam, [he shall go] to the heavens :
ainhau âtare vanad.—?
If he has offered up a sacrifice, his merits are above his sins by one tanafahr, and he goes to the Garothman :
aêtahể thnasad dbishanguha.—? 'Afrag says: the words
avavadkid yatha hvô peresahê show that more than one tanafahr is needed. Some say four tanafahrs are needed :
yố tàiryâbis.—" Qui quartis.”
tishrãm khshapanãm.—[The tortures] “of the three nights ?.”
VENDIDAD VII, 72. yêzi aêshãm patarô ishare-stâitya.—'If their fathers at once...
The Pahlavi text is too corrupt for the connection between the quotation and the Zend text to be clear.
VENDÎDÂD VIII, 22, 74. yatha makhshyau perenem yatha và aperenahê.As much as a fly's wing, or of a wingless .. : (?)
74. Burning a corpse is a capital crime. Is it allowable to burn the living?
'Gô-gushnasp said: If it is for punishment, it must be done
yad ahmi (or hama) ava (avi) nồid aoshem nadhô saosunkayo.—"In such a way that death should not be produced by burning."
· Cf. Yt. XXII, 19–36; or Bundahis XXX, 16.
Digitized by Google
