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SHAYAST LÂ-SHAYAST.
spoken well, and whoever has spoken about meatofferings has not spoken everything which is noteworthy'. 6. When one shall offer up? what pertains to one (khadukag) on account of another it is proper ; except the tongue, jaw, and left eye, for that those are the angel Hôm's own is manifest from the passage : ‘Hizvãm frerenaod 3,' &C.
CHAPTER XII. 1. The rule is this, that when one's form of worship (yast) is performed, and it is not possible for him to prepare it, the practice of those of the primitive faith is, when the girdle (afpiya ang) is twined about a sacred twig-bundle (baresôm) of seven twigs (tâk), to consecrate a sacred cake (drônô) thrice, which becomes his form of worship that is performed one degree better through the sacred cake; and of the merit of a threefold consecration
Meaning, apparently, that to pray for protection as a favour is better than to pray for it as a return for an offering.
· K20 has 'shall give up.'
: It is doubtful if this passage can be found in the extant Avesta; but a passage of similar meaning, and containing the words frerenaod and hizvô, occurs in Yas. XI, 16, which states that the righteous father, Ahuramazda, produced for me, Haoma, as a Draona, the two jaws, with the tongue and the left eye;' and it then proceeds (Yas. XI, 17-19) to curse any one who shall deprive me of that Draona, or shall himself enjoy, or shall give away what the righteous Ahuramazda gave me, the two jaws, with the tongue and the left eye.'.
* A Yast is a formula of praise in honour of the sun, moon, water, fire, or some other angel, as well as a term for prayers and worship in general. See Chap. I, 3.
• See Chap. III, 32, note.
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