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three nights (satuih) does not affect him? 7. And if he does not engage in renunciation he is in hell till the future existence; and in his future body they will bring him from hell, and for every mortal sin they will cut off his head once, and the last time they will make him alive again, and will inflict (numayend) three nights' severe punishment?
8. However a man engages in renunciation of sin the duty of his state of renunciation (patitih) is to be engaged therein openly and mentally in renunciation; the duty of openness is this, that the sin which he knows has assailed him s, is to be specially confessed (barà gôbisno) by him; and the mental duty is this, that he engages in renunciation with this thought, that 'henceforth I will not commit sin.' 9. And that which occurs before the renunciation, except pious alms, it is well for him not to be overlooked by him, and not to be kept 6 secret by him ; for when he shall overlooke, or shall keep secret, about sin committed, it becomes for him as
That is, the usual ceremonies after death are not to be withheld in this world, and his soul is able to pass through the usual investigation, as to his sins and good works, on its way to the other world, without delay. This period of three nights (satûih, 'the triplet '), which . Pâzand writers miscall sedôs or sadis, is the time during which the soul is supposed to hover about the body, before finally departing for the other world (see Mkh. II, 114, 158– 160, AV. IV, 9-14, XVII, 2-9).
* The same statement is made in nearly the same words in Pahl. Vend. VII, 136. This is the future three nights' punishment for impenitent sinners, mentioned in Bund. XXX, 16.
. Literally, which he knows thus: “It assailed me."
• Reading avênisno, but the word can also be read khuninisno, 'to be made celebrated, to be boasted of.'
* Literally, 'carried on, borne away.' • Reading avênêd, but it may be khunînêd, 'boast of.'
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