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EXTANT FRAGMENTS'.
I. SÛDKAR NAsk Dk. IX, Chap. II, 3–15, referring to the useful effect of reciting the Yathâ-ahû-vairyô as a spell, on various occasions, is quoted in Sls. XIX, 1-14, and also in the Persian Rivậyat of Bahman Pangyah, with some slight variations.
Dk. IX, Chap. VI, 2, refers to the passage thus mentioned in Sls. IX, 2, 3:—' The priest who passes away in an out-district (a uzdehikih) thou hast considered as desolate (virân); and there is a high-priest who is of a different opinion, there is one who says it is as a non-Irânian (anâirân) country. It is declared that, when a supreme high-priest (zaratûstrotům) passes away in an out-district, an apostate will be born in that dwelling, and this calamity is only (aêvâk) mentioned as to the supreme high-priest'
Dk. IX, Chap. VIII, 1-6, refers to Zaratûst's
* Only the Pahlavi versions of these fragments are extant, unless it be otherwise stated.
* The detailed account of this Nask, in Dk. IX, contains about 5,400 Pahlavi words, and, if these represent the same proportion of original text as those in the accounts of the first three fargards of the Bako Nask do, they would indicate about 4,700 words of Avesta text and 10,500 of Pahlavi version as the original extent of this Nask.
3 See p. 418, n. 3.
+ This translation has been corrected in accordance with p. 178, n. 2.
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