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CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION
Abbreviations used in this volume
CONTENTS OF THE NASKS.
DINKARD, BOOK VIII.
CHAP.
1. Classification, names, and divisions of the Nasks
2. Südkar Nask
3. Varstmânsar Nask
4. Bakŏ Nask
5. Dâmdâd Nask
6. Nâdar Nask: only the Avesta extant
7. Pagag Nask: meat-offering, preparations, and priests for season-festivals; (§ 10) periods of day and year, fravardîkân days; gathering herbs, chastisement of sinners, 33 chieftainships, apostasy; (§ 20) almsgiving, summer and winter, calamity of a century, months.
8. Rado-dâd-aîtag Nask
9. Baris Nask: good and evil; advantages and disadvantages of the period
10. Kaskisrobô Nask
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11. Vistasp-sâstô Nask: particulars about Kaî-Vistâsp, visit of the archangels to him, and his war with Argâsp 12. Vastag Nask: not extant
13. Kitradâd Nask: races and monarchs from Gâyômard to Zaratust; (§ 17) the Sasanians and some leaders of religion
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14. Spend Nask: birth and life of Zaratust, his vision of the past, future, and other world; (§ 12) his posthumous sons, the future apostles
15. Bakân-yast Nask: worship of the sacred beings and duties of the worshippers
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