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CHAN
PAGB
26. Aratêstáristân section of the same : destroying wolves,
two-legged and four-legged; supplies, equipnients, and horses for warriors; training of horses, efficacy. of warriors, sin of a warrior's village on account of a battle, armour, officers and troopers, number of troopers; ($ 10) supplies for two warriors, medicinal herbs and accoutrements, feeding warriors on day of battle, wealth of the enemy, friendship and devotion of warriors, the general and his strategy, requisite horses to be seized, sentinels; ($ 20) demonstrations, altercation with enemy, speech to troops, conciliating and encouraging them, religious rites before the battle, reserves who keep the stores and prisoners, refreshment
and return of stores after the battle . . . . 86 27. A miscellaneous section of the same: a warm bath,
exertion of a horse, precautions with regard to fire when cooking and travelling, picketing a horse, food of men, fire, and cattle; hospitality, clothes, a streetkeeper; (§ 10) providing in summer for the winter, reaping, union for good purposes, produce of plants and animals, property of nobles and the multitude,
envy among animals and people . . . . 90 28. Aêrpatistân section of the Hasparam Nask: providing
flr a priestly assembly, the priest and his disciple, district priest to be appointed, five dispositions of priests, enquiry into concealed parentage of a priest, his accountability for sin, worry in forming a priestly
assembly, relative superiority of priests . . . 92 29. Nîrangistan section of the same: ritual and priests for
the ceremonial, the sacred cake, abstaining from wine, recitation of Avesta, the ceremonial when the priest is a
Tanâpůhar sinner, priestship of a woman or child, he who is cursed, season-festivals and periods of the day; ($ 11) sacrifice of a sheep, stations of the priests, the perfect ceremonial, sacred shirt and girdle, sacred twigs, firewood, ceremonials of various grades, celebrations of the ceremonies; (§ 21) cleanliness of the celebrator, place, and apparatus; ceremony of the waters, and other particulars; families of Zaratast, Hvôv, and Vistâsp . . . . . . . . . 94
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