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DINKARD.-BOOK IX.
CHAPTER 1? 1. Satisfaction (sh nôkhar) to the creator Adharmazd, and obeisance to the Mazda-worshipping religion.
2. The ninth book (baba) is about the Has and Fargards 2 of the various Nasks; the object of procuring the division of those portions which exist being owing to the quantity of what is in each one of the Nasks; also an explanation of a suitable selection therefrom, such as is an epitome (nisang ag-1) of the abundant detail therein.
CHAPTER II.
Sadkar Nask. 1. Glorification for the Mazda-worshipping religion which is the ordinance of Adharmazd opposed to the demons.
2. Of the Sadkar' there are twenty-two fargards,
From this point to Chap. XXXI, 17 the text is also found in a second MS. (K) which is independent of the MS. B brought to Surat in A.D. 1783, the original of all the Bombay copies.
See Bk. VIII, Chap. I, 20, 23. The contents of these are detailed below, in Chaps. II-LXVIII, so far as the first three Nasks are concerned.
* Referring to Chap. LXIX.
• The first of the Nasks and second of the Gathic division (see Bk. VIII, Chap. I, 9, 12). As the Stôd-yast (the first of the Gathic
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