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and the fire was stimulated by their mouths; and the first fuel kindled by them was dry grass, kendâr, lotos, date palm leaves, and myrtle ; and they made a roast of the sheep. 14. And they dropped three handfuls of the meat into the fire, and said: 'This is the share of the fire 1.' One piece of the rest they tossed to the sky, and said: 'This is the share of the angels.' A bird, the vulture, advanced and carried some of it away from before them, as a dog ate the first meat. 15. And, first, a clothing of skins covered them; afterwards, it is said, woven garments were prepared from a cloth woven ? in the wilderness. 16. And they dug out a pit in the earth, and iron was obtained by them and beaten out with a stone, and without a forge they beat out a cutting edges from it; and they cut wood with it, and prepared a wooden shelter from the sun (pês-khar).
17. Owing to the gracelessness which they practised, the demons became more oppressive, and they themselves carried on unnatural malice between themselves; they advanced one against the other, and smote and tore their hair and cheeks 4. 18. Then the demons shouted out of the darkness
1 Most of this sentence is omitted in K20 by mistake.
? Reading khês-1-i tad, which Pahlavi words might be easily misread ashâbê tad, as given in Pazand in the text. That Pâz. tadha stands for Pahl. tadak (Pers. tadah, spun, woven') is quite certain.
. Or'an axe,' according as we read têkh or tash. The order of the foregoing words, bara tapâk-1, without a forge,' appears to have been reversed by mistake.
• Reading rôd as equivalent to Pers. rùi, face,' but it ought to be rôd. Perhaps the word is lat, 'bare,' and the translation should be, tore their hair bare.'
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