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CHAPTER XXVII, 25-XXVIII, 2.
105 Anîrân has this Hôm of the angel Hôm1, of three kinds.
25. It is concerning plants that every single kind with a drop of water on a twig (teh) they should hold four finger-breadths in front of the fire; most of all it is the lotos (kûnâr) they speak of.
CHAPTER XXVIII 3.
[1. On the evil-doing of Aharman and the demons it says in revelation, that the evil which the evil spirit has produced for the creation of Aûharmazd it is possible to tell by this winter; and his body is that of a lizard (vazagh) whose place is filth (kalk). 2. He does not think, nor speak, nor act for the welfare (nadûkih) of the creatures of Aûharmazd; and his business is unmercifulness and the destruction of this welfare, so that the creatures which Aûharmazd shall increase he will destroy; and his eyesight (kashm mikisn) does not refrain from doing the creatures harm. 3. As it says that, 'ever
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* Reading, in Pahlavi, Hôm yêdatô aê hôm.
2 See Chap. XXI, 1. Referring to the necessity of drying firewood before putting it on the fire. The kûnâr is specially mentioned, as one of the first fire-woods used by mankind, in Chap. XV, 13.
Chaps. XXVIII, XXIX, and XXXI are omitted in M6 and all MSS. descended from it, whether Pahlavi or Pâzand; and, owing to the loss of a folio from K20 before any of its extant copies were written, the first quarter of Chap. XXVIII has hitherto been missing, but is here supplied (enclosed in brackets) from TD, a MS. belonging to Mobad Tahmuras Dinshaw (see Introduction). Winter being one of the primary evils brought upon creation by Angra-mainyu (see Vend. I, 8-12).
See Chap. III, 9.
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Referring to the evil eye.'
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