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CHAPTER XVII, 10-XVIII, 3.
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is, a fragment' is to be taken and to be laid across his limbs; for when the usage is not so, they raise him again from that place where his body arrives at the ground.'
15. Completed in peace, pleasure, and joy
CHAPTER XVIII: 1. It is said in revelation that Aêshm* rushed into the presence of Aharman', and exclaimed thus:
I will not go into the world, because Adharmazd, the lord, has produced three things in the world, to which it is not possible for me to do anything whatever.
2. Aharman exclaimed thus : 'Say which are those three things.'
3. Aeshm exclaimed thus: “The season-festival
Apparently a fragment of the place whereon the death took place is meant by kadâm - 1 pârak.
· The miscellaneous passages which follow Sls. in M6 terminate at this point, which is the end of the first volume of that MS. The next three chapters are taken from the latter end of the other volume of M6.
Both this chapter and the next are also found in K20, the first being placed before the first part of Sls., and the second before the second part. Chap. XVIII also occurs in Dastûr Jâmâspji's MS. of the Bundahis, just after Chap. XXXIV of that text (see Introduction, p. xxx), and a Pázand version of it occupies the same position in L7 and L22, and is translated by Justi as the last chapter of the Bundahis, in his German translation of that work (see Introduction, p. xxvi). • The demon of wrath (see Bund. XXVIII, 15-17).
See Bund. I, 3. Aêshm, as the chief agent of the evil spirit in his machinations against mankind, rushes into his master's presence in hell to complain of the difficulties he encounters.
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