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OTHER DETAILS OF NASKS.
21. The name of the twenty-first is Hâdokht?, and this is a book of thirty subdivisions, about the manner of bringing together and the abundance of miracles, also the excellence and connections of them. And the accursed devil goes far from every one who recites this book together with the Yast?, and this person is near to the rank (pâigâh) of a sacred being, and his sins become pure; also in this book the accursed devil becomes cursed, and God knows it.
III. FROM THE RivÂvat OF NARÊMÂN HÔSHANG 3.
1. Again, that which is in Pahlavi characters is clear in that manner, that in the Yathâ-aha-vairyo there are twenty-one vocables, that is, twenty-one words, and beneath each word there is an equivalent meaning; it is also known to the devout that there are twenty-one Nasks of the Avesta
2. The first Nask is of thirty-three subdivisions, that is, it is of thirty-three compilations, and its name is Stôd-yast, that is, 'producing the praise of the sacred beings;' and the words of the book have come down for the majesty of the sacred beings and angels, and they recite them in that manner; and in the presence of every high-priest of the pure ritual, who rightly understands its Avesta and Zand,
i See Dk. VIII, Chap. XLV. 0225 has Hadokht. : The Yasna, or Stôd-yast of $1.
S Narêmân Hôshang of Bharôk returned from Persia, A.D. 1478, with letters from priests in Irân in reply to those from priests in India. His account of the Nasks is more abbreviated than the others, and appears to be derived from a Pahlavi original.
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| SR No. | 007682 |
| Book Title | Questions of King Milinda Part 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | T W Rhys Davids |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1894 |
| Total Pages | 2240 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 38 MB |