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SHAYAST LÂ-SHÂYAST.
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accusers1 it will be necessary to act so that the head of the family (mirak) shall not become evil-minded, and shall not divorce the wife from matrimony, and they shall not bring him on unto him; before his accusers he is to be engaged in renunciation, and when not, he is to be engaged in renunciation of the sin before the high-priests (radân), and it will become debts, and debt does not make a man wicked; its effect is this, that in the future existence they may quite forsake him, and this becomes a great shame, and they disturb (kâvênd) his enjoyment. 15. As to the sin which affects the accusers, when the female has atoned for it, its stem (pâyak) is atoned for; some say that the stem (pâyakghih) has no root; some say that it is just like a tree whose leaves wither away.
16. Sin relating to the soul", when one engages in renunciation, stays away from him; when it shall be fully atoned for it is well, and when he does not fully atone they will make him righteous by the three nights' (satûth) punishment. 17. Kushtanŏbûgêd said that even that which affects accusers, when one engages in renunciation, stays away from him.
1 Hamêmâlân (see § 1); the particular instance of hamêmâl sin here referred to is seduction.
2 Reading dûsmînân instead of the unmeaning dusmiyân of the MSS.
' Reading yâîtyână instead of the unmeaning yâîtam of the MSS.; a being often written very much like m in Pahlavi.
This clause about the hamêmâl sin becoming a debt, to be settled with the accuser,' either here or hereafter, is taken from Pahl. Vend. III, 151.
That is, rûbânîk sin (see § 1, note).
See Chap. I, 4, note.
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