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the earlier portion of the text begins with a fragment of a passage; which appears to correspond with part of the description of the Aêrpatistân section, given in Chap. XXVIII, I; but also contains passages that are difficult to trace in any part of that description. The Nfrangistân portion of this text is divided into three fargards, and Dd. LXVI, I mentions 'five fargards of the Avesta of the correct law of the Nfrangistân, which are easy through the Zand;' so that the missing portion of this section of the Nask, described in Chap. XXIX, 18–25, must have contained two fargards. With regard to the unidentified passages, preceding the Nirangistân portion of the extant text, it may be remarked that they include several of the statements about 'unseasonable chatter' contained in Sls. V, 3-6, where they are differently arranged.
Dk. VIII, Chap. XXIX, 2, refers to a passage which may have contained the statement thus mentioned in Sls. XII, 1:-Of the merit of a threefold consecration of the sacred cake the high-priests have specially taught in the Haspâram that it is as much as that of a lesser form of worship.'
Dk. VIII, Chap. XXIX, 8, refers to the passage which probably contained the statement thus quoted in Sls. XII, 31: Of the ceremonies which go to the bridge as sin it says this in the Haspâram, that they are the non-celebration of the rites of the season-festivals, the Rapitvin, the three nights after a death, the days of the guardian spirits, and the sun and moon.
Dk. VIII, Chap. XXXII, 1, refers to the passage which must have contained the statement thus mentioned in Sls. XIII, 17:—'The six hot ordeals
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| SR No. | 007672 |
| Book Title | Zend Avesta Part 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | James Darmesteter |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1883 |
| Total Pages | 2221 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 41 MB |