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V. TAHMURAS FRAGMENTS.
Vi. 1. For Mazda reigns according as Vohu Mano 2 waxeth (Yasna XXXI, 6 c).
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2. For all of them shall a path be opened across the Kinvad bridge (Yasna XLVI, 10 e).
VII. 3. He gives a tongue to the wolf“, who imparteth the Holy Word to the heretico,
VIII. 4. Hearken not to the Law and the Doctrine in the mouth of the unrighteous Ø ;
5. He would bring unto the house, the borough, the district, and the country
6. Misfortune and death. Teach him with the thrust of the sword ?! (Yasna XXXI, 18).
* A quotation from the Nirangistân, or rather Erpatistân; see below, Nîrang. $ 17.
Hear not the Avesta and Zand (the Holy Scripture and its interpretation) from the mouth of the heretic' (Comm.)
· The good old principle of king Saint-Louis: Nulz, se il n'est très bon clers, ne doit disputer à aus (the Jews); mais li hom lays, quant il ot mesdire de la loy crestienne, ne doit pas défendre la loy crestienne, ne mais de l'espée, de quoy i doit donner parmi le ventre dedens, tant comme elle y peut entrer' (Joinville). The word růsták, in the text, must have been a Pahlavi gloss to the Avesta shôithrem in $ 5.
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