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CHAPTER XXXII, 4-7.
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71. By Isadvâstar was begotten a son whose name was Ururviga, and they call him Arang-i Birâdâns ('fore-arm of brothers ') for this reason, that, as they
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with the parents' consent, an unbetrothed maiden out of a family, and she and her children remain his in both worlds.
A yakan or ayûk (only child') wife is an only child, married with the parents' consent, and her first child belongs to them; after its birth she becomes a padshah wife. She is entitled to onethird of her parents' property for giving up the child.
A satar ('adopted') wife is when a man over fifteen years of age dies childless and unmarried, and his relatives provide a maiden with a dowry, and marry her to another man; when half her children belong to the dead man, and half to the living, and she herself is the dead man's wife in the other world.
A kakar or kâkar serving') wife is a widow who marries again ; if she had no children by her first husband she is acting as a satar wife, and half her children by her second husband belong to her first one; and she herself, in any case, belongs to her first husband in the other world.
A khad-sarâî or khad-sarâî (“self-disposing') wife is one who marries without her parents' consent; she inherits no property from her parents until her eldest son has given her as a padshah wife to his father.
* Instead of this sentence the Vagarkard-i Dînîk (pp. 21, 22) has the following, which appears to rest upon a misinterpretation of the text:
And Zaratust the righteous had three wives; all three were in the lifetime of Zaratust, and all three wives were living throughout the lifetime of Zaratust; the name of one was Hvôv, of the second Urvig, of the third Arnig-bareda. And from Urvig, who was a privileged wife, four children were born; one was the son Isadvästar, and the three daughters, namely, Frên, Srîtak, and Pôrukist; these four were from Urvig. And from the wife Arnig-baredã two sons were born, one Adrvart-nar, and the second Khârshed-kîhar ; and Arnig-baredâ was a serving wife, and the name of the former husband of Arnig-baredâ was Mitrô-ayâr. And from Hvôv, who was a privileged wife, were three sons, namely, Hůshêdar, Húshedar-mâh, and SØshâns, as it says,' &c. (as in $ 8). 9 TD has Pahl. Aurvarvigak or Khürürdpak.
So in TD.
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