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DÎNKARD, BOOK IX.
he whom one calls Kaf-Khasrôi, who produces even an advance of thy religion of the Mazda-worshippers, and also understands about it; who gives my good practices further blessings, so that the world' maintains my doings with benedictions.'
20. Righteousness is perfect excellence.
CHAPTER XVII.
Sadkar Nask. 1. The sixteenth fargard, Spentâ-mainyû ?, is about effecting the bridge-judgment of sinners, as declared by revelation. 2. About performing the ceremony (yasto) for a man and a woman, and it is ordered for the woman before the man; the fitness for the supreme heaven (garôdmânikih) arisen through the liturgy (ya stô) to be recited itself, or through purchasing heaven in the worldly existence :.
3. About the immunity of the soul from hell through the righteousness of having respectfully given a horse of a good race, the land of a cultivated field, or a virtuous woman, to a righteous man; and also the woman who gives herself in marriage to
his opposition to idolatry (see Yt. V, 49, 50; Bd. XVII, 7). This section appears to be an actual quotation from the Pahlavi version of the Nask, professing to give the words of Zaratûst.
1 K has dê hik, 'a provincial.'
. The first two words of the first hå of the third Gatha (Yas. XLVII, I), which are converted into the Pahlavi appellation Spendmaîto.
3 By providing for the performance of the proper ceremonies for the benefit of one's own soul.
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