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DINKARD, BOOK IX.
21. About the girding on of this saying of the religion of Aûharmazd by the three degrees (padmân), which are good thoughts, good words, and good deeds; by the four classes, which are priesthood, warriorship, husbandry, and artisanship; and by the five chieftainships, which are house-rule, village-rule, tribe-rule, province-rule, and the supreme Zaratustship; and the one summing up (hangerdikih) which is the liberality of the good ruler 1.
22. Righteousness is perfect excellence.
CHAPTER XLVIII.
Bako Nask.
1. The second fargard is the Ashem of the Bakân; it is by it that perfect excellence is produced for every one who produces for any one else that which is suitable for him; for this reason, because, for the sake of perfect production, there is much unprofitable production, but profitable production is suitably producing. 2. This, too, that the reward of every good work is given by it to mankind, which keeps mankind in diligence when it instructs; because, as the business of all good works is that which instructs and keeps mankind in diligence, the reward of good works which man
1 See Pahl. Yas. XIX, 44-55
2 See Chap. III, In; it is here expressed by its Pahlavi equivalent aharâyîh. This fargard is still extant in Yas. XX. See Pahl. Yas. XX, I.
See Chap. XLVII, 2.
5 Ibid. 2.
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