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CONTENTS OF THE NASKS.
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CHAPTER I. 1. Praise for Adharmazd, and obeisance to the Mazda-worshipping religion which is the ordinance of Adharmazd opposed to the demo s.
2. The eighth book is the present (latamman) memorandum about a summary of what is in the Nasks of the Mazda-worshipping religion, each separately. 3. That which is within the compass (shad-aarvan) of this book, about the account of the good religion, is a writing for the information of the many, and an announcement from the commentary (zand)that which is in explanation of revelation (deno)—which, for this simple (pådram) high-priest, is in itself the writing of the voice of revelation
4. But, before that, is a writing of the usage about the divisions (bangisno) of the reckoning of the Mazda-worshipping revelation, also the parts (bahar) of its divisions, and the sections (burinako) of the parts; and the exposition of the account,
1 The author means that he derives his information about the contents of the Nasks entirely from their Pahlavi versions which, so far as he is concerned, are of equal authority with the Avesta text. * This introductory chapter.
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