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it comes, there may occur the sin of unlawfully terrifying sheep, and the beast of burden is beaten ; and whatever is on the same subject. 60. About bringing a plant which is a medicinal herb, and whatever is on the same subject.
61. About a sociable feast (ham-myâzdih) with idolators, that is, how it is when held authorisedly, and how it is when it is not; and, when one gives the sociable feast, how it is when they are to be considered unhonoured, and how it is when they are to be considered more honoured even than the Irânians. 62. And about the broken victuals which the idolators have eaten and drunk therein.
63. About the proportion of meat with the bread in atonement for deprival of food. 64. About an ordeal which is severe, and one which is not severe; and the evidence of acquittal from the achievement thereof. 65. About the secrets of the religion, and the sin owing to their being disclosed (gushafto). 66. About the sin of speaking evil words to the wives of others. 67. About the extent of the most inferior house, village, community, and province; and that of the most superior. 68. And about what was the mode of residence of Frashồstar and Gamasp 3 in a plundering (la iskar) army, and their habits.
the copyist having mistaken ap for a s, and substituted the Zvâris equivalent min for the latter which he supposed was a separate word.
Or abstracting.' * See Chaps. XVII, 6, XXXVII, 11.
Two brothers who were contemporaries of Zaratůst. Frashóstar was his father-in-law, and Gamasp was prime minister of king Vistasp.
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