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CHAPTER XXVIII, 16-22.
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days and nights 1 when they remain in the world; he carries them on, terror-stricken, and sits at the gate of hell. 19. The demon Uda? is he who, when a man sits in a private place, or when he eats at meals, strikes his knee spiritually on his back 3, so that he bawls out [and looks out, that chattering he may eat, chattering] he may evacuate (riêd), and chattering he may make water (mêzêd), so that he may not attain (unto the] best existence *.
[20. The demon Akâtâsh 6 is the fiend of perversion (nikirâyih), who makes the creatures averse (nikfrâl) from proper things; as it says, that whoever has given anything to that person (tanû) whose opinion (dad) is this, that it is not necessary to have a high-priest (dastóbar), then the demon Aeshm is propitiated by him. 21. Whoever has given anything to that person whose opinion is this, and who says, that it is not necessary to have a snake-killer (mâr-van), then Aharman, with the foregoing demons, is propitiated by him; this is said of him who, when he sees a noxious creature, does not kill it. 22. A snake-killer (mârô-gnð) is a stick on the end of which a leathern thong is
TD has those three nights,' referring to the period that the soul is said to remain hovering about the body after death (see Hådôkht Nask, ed. Haug, II, 1-18, III, 1-17).
* So in K20; TD has Addak (see Pahl.Vend. XVIII, 70).
* TD has merely strikes a slipper (padîn-pôsh) spiritually,' that is, invisibly, for the purpose of startling the man.
• The short phrases in brackets are taken from TD to supply words tom off from K20, which passes on to Chap. XXIX at this point, but TD supplies a continuation of Chap. XXVIII, which is added here, and enclosed in brackets.
• The Av. Akatasha of Vend. X, 23 Sp., XIX, 43 W. 6 See Pahlavi Vend. XVIII, 5, 6.
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