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CHAPTER XIII, 16–22.
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thus :-'The first comfort of the earth is from the land on which a righteous man walks forth; the second is when they shall make the dwelling of the good and fires upon it; the third is when they sow corn upon it, and shall take heed of dead matter; the fourth is when all beasts of burden are born upon it; the fifth is when every beast of burden is on it?; and its first discomfort is from the Arezûr ridge and the gate of hell; the second is when they dig 3 it up for a dead body; the third is when one constructs a depository for the dead (kha zân)* upon it; the fourth is from the holes of its noxious creatures; the fifth is when they shall forsake a man in affliction (vardakih) upon it, who is righteous.'
20. The five stanzas of Ithå (Yas. XXXIX) are just as those which go before.
21. The four stanzas of Âhů-ad-paiti (Yas. XL) are about the benefit (arg-hômandih) which is on account of water, earth, plants, and animals.
22. The six stanzas of Stâtô-garð (Yas. XLI, 1-17), the two repetitions of Humatanãm (Yas. XXXV, 4-6), and the three repetitions of Hukhshathrôtemâi (Yas. XXXV, 13–15) are on account of the existence of the sons of Zaratūst '.
The verb is probably omitted by mistake, and we ought to read voids urine upon it,' in accordance with Vend. III, 20.
? See Bund. XII, 8.
8 Reading kalên dend (Pers. kalandand), as Vend. III, 27 refers to burial of the dead, and the same idea might be obtained, more fancifully, by reading kilînênd,' they turn to clay' (compare Pers. gil, clay '); but the most obvious reading is karînênd, they cut,' and as the sentence stands it would imply that they cut up its dead.'
* See Chap. II, 6..
o The three apostles expected in the future (see $ 5 and Bund. XXXII, 8). It is doubtful whether these three passages in the
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