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SHẤYAST LÂ-SHAYAST.
set apart from the gifts (dâ sarân), so that his soul may become easier.' Completed in peace and pleasure.)
Part II.-A Supplementary Treatise!
CHAPTER XI. 1. The degrees of sin are these ?, such as a Farmân, Srôshô-karanâm, Ågerept, Afvfrist, Aredūs, Khôr, Bâzâl, Yât, and Tanâpahar, and I will mention each of them a second time. 2. A Farmân is the weight of three dirhams of four mads 3 ; a
pieces of white cotton cloth, hanging loosely from the bridge of the nose to at least two inches below the mouth, and tied with two strings at the back of the head. It must be worn by a priest whenever he approaches the sacred fire, so as to prevent his breath from contaminating the fire. On certain occasions a layman has to use a substitute for the penôm by screening his mouth and nose with a portion of his muslin shirt.' (Haug's Essays, p. 243, note 1; see also Pahl. Vend. XVIII, 1-4.)
This second part is evidently by another writer, for he not only repeats several passages (Chaps. XI, 1, 2, XII, 11, 13-16, 18, 20), which are given in the first part, but he also writes generally in a less simple style. In some MSS. of Sls. alone, such as M9, the second part immediately follows the first, as in this translation; indicating that it has been accepted as a part of the same work. But in M6 the two parts are separated by the Farh. Okh., occupying twenty folios; and in K20 there is an interval of ninety-two folios, containing the Farh. Okh., Bund., B. Yt., and several other texts.
38$ 1, 2 are a repetition of Chap. I, 1, 2, with a few variations. The number of degrees is here raised to nine by the addition of the Srôshô-karanam (see Chap. X, 24), which is written Srôshakaranâm in both these sections.
s Reading i mad-4, instead of va m-4; the mad being a quarter-dirham (see Chap. X, 24, note); or we can read 'weight and quantity (mâyab) of three dirhams.' The amount of the Farmân
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