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SHẤYAST LÂ-SHẦYAST.
Rapitvin', the three nights 2 after a death, the days devoted to the guardian spirits , and the sun and moon
32. The rule is this, that at every one of these three things, which come through hungry living, that is, sneezing, yawning, and sighing, one is to speak out a Yathâ-ahd-vairyô and one Ashem-voha"; and also when one hears the sneezing of any one, to speak in like manner is so considered as an action of the good e; and in the Stadgar Nask' it says thus : ""What prepares sneezing? that is, through what process (kâr) does it come?” And Adharmazd said thus: “Hungry living, O Zaratūst! because the remedy for its existence is the Ahunavar, o Zaratust! and righteousness 8."
CHAPTER XIII. o. The signification of the Gâthaso. 1. These three Ashem-vohûs (Yas. XI, end) which
· The midday period (see Bund. II, 8, 9, XXV, 9-14). . See Chap. VIII, 6.
* See Chap. X, 2. + See Chap. VII, 1-5.
o See Bund. I, 21, XX, 2. • That is, it is commendable, though not obligatory. The practice of uttering a blessing on hearing a sneeze is still common in many parts of Europe.
? See B. Yt. I, 1. The passage here quoted is not to be traced in any of the accounts of this Nask.
The Ahunavar and praise of righteousness' would be a Pahlavi equivalent for the Yatha-ahû-vairyð and Ashem-vohd.'
• That is, the mystical meaning or influence supposed to attach to various parts of the ancient hymns, or to the manner in which they are chanted. The term Gatha or "hymn' (Pahl. gås) is applied, in this chapter, not only to the five Gâthas properly so called, but also to the Yasna of seven chapters, and apparently to
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