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FRAGMENTS OF THE NASKS.
VENDIDÂD VIII, 80. The domestic fire smites the demons only at midnight; the Bahrâm fire, if called by its name Bahrâm (Varahrân, victorious), smites them by thousands at every moment. That appears from the passage:
aogaiti.— He calls him ...!
VendiDÂD VIII, 103. fravairi (r. frakairi) frakerenaod vâstre verezyðid. - He may then sow and till the pasture fields ' (cf. below, Vd. XIX, 41).
VENDIDÂD IX, 32. nava vibâzva drago.— A space of nine Vibâzus square' (Vd. IX, 2).
pankadasa zemô hankanayen.—' Fifteen times shall they take up dust from the ground' [for him to rub his body; Vd. IX, 30)
If the man who is being cleansed does not perform the pankadasa, the whole of the operation is null and void.'
VENDIDÂD XII, 7. kainino hvatô puthrem.--'A young woman (who kills] her own child ...
This is very likely a quotation, similar to VI. XV, 10, which crept from the old Commentary to Vd. XII, now lost, into the Sâda text.
VENDIDÂD XIII, 9. If a man kill a dog, the dogs that guard the Kinvad bridge will not help him against the demons in his passage from this world to the next. "Some mean thereby the divine keepers of the bridge,
yayau asti anyô Rashnus Razisto.—" Of whom one is Rashnu Razista ?." '.
See Yast XII.
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