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IV. ZEND FRAGMENTS.
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hãm-yâsaiti. [The man in whom falsehood and purity] "meet equally" (= Yasna XXXIII, I c).
'If the merits outweigh the sins by three Srôshô-karanâm, [he shall go] to the heavens :
aiNhau âtare vanâd.-?
'If he has offered up a sacrifice, his merits are above his sins by one tanâführ, and he goes to the Garôthmân:
aêtahê thnasad d'bishanguha.-?
'Afrag says: the words
avavadkid yatha hvô peresahê
show that more than one tanâführ is needed. Some say four tanâführs are needed:
yô tûiryâbis.—“Qui quartis."
tishram khshapanãm.-[The tortures] "of the three nights'."'
VENDIDAD VII, 72.
yêzi aêsham patarô ishare-stâitya.-'If their fathers
at once
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The Pahlavi text is too corrupt for the connection between the quotation and the Zend text to be clear.
VENDIDAD VIII, 22, 74.
yatha makhshyau perenem yatha vâ aperenahê.— 'As much as a fly's wing, or of a wingless . . .' (?) 74. Burning a corpse is a capital crime. Is it allowable to burn the living?
'Go-gushnasp said: If it is for punishment, it must be
done
yad ahmi (or hama) ava (avi) nôid aoshem nadhô saosunkayo." In such a way that death should not be produced by burning."'
1 Cf. Yt. XXII, 19-36; or Bundahis XXX, 16.
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