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VI. ERPATISTÂN AND NİRANGJSTÂN.
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Who have plentiful living, And dream of a surplus of meat; If such men recite not (the prayers),
He who celebrates the festival can charge them with non-celebration. 54. Whose meat-offering is accepted ? The offering of a man, of a woman, of a child. The property seized on a criminal is accepted.
The property seized on heathens : who have broken a treaty is accepted ;
Also the property that is brought having been seized on the committer of an unexpiated aredus ;
The property seized in consequence of an ordeal;
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56. Sheep diseased, wounded, or lean, are not accepted.
Sheep not diseased, not wounded, and not leanfleshed, are accepted.
57. Milk cooked or not cooked, from a fat cow or from a lean cow, is accepted.
Meat is accepted; cooked, not uncooked; from fat cattle, not from lean cattle.
... and ... are accepted ; cooked, not uncooked ; fat, not lean ...
Paê aênyaikid (paêmainyaikid?) zaothraya. 58. hvô istaêsva pasus hvis.
Yo pasům avâi vinaoiti (paska) hd-fráshmô-dáitîm asaokantad paiti athråd.
Yatha vå azô skaênis yatha hus pereso.
· However rich may be their offerings. : Foreigners, non-Zoroastrians.
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