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CHAPTER XLVIII, 35-41.
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(vêh-sazâk), a scripture (nask) made easy', a true text (avistâk), ablutions performed, proper rites, undivided, and faultless. 39. Near which fashion, with like abilities, and innumerable times, it is very purely solemnized in the abode of the ever-growing fire, then in the abode of the other sacred fires ?, then in the abodes of Mazda-worshippers and other good people, and then in other places pronounced clean. 40. That of the three days' is in the abode of the fire-place which is nearest to that of the departed; the ceremony of the guardian spirits of the righteous - is solemnized in purity there where the dwelling is which is nearest that of the departed whose soul is honoured. 41. And that for victories in war is then at its times of battle, the husbandry of Sâm and other offenders (vinâ sagân) who were for keeping away husbandry, the household attendant's place for a warrior of another rank, the occasion of the outcry of those not possessing (a dârigân) a lodging, unto the rest of the same temperament (mûnôko), expressly to produce and maintain a proportional resemblance 6.
1 That is, learnt by heart. · Literally "fires of Varahrân.
$ The three days after a death, during which ceremonies are performed in honour of the angel Srôsh, who is supposed to protect the departed soul from the demons during that period, while it is still hovering about the body (see Chap. XXVIII, 6). • On the fourth day after a death (see Chap. XXVIII, 7).
That is, Keresasp the Saman (see Chap. XVII, 6); having been a famous warrior his husbandry is said to be battle, the destruction of all ordinary husbandry.
• That is, the ruin of people by war leads them to demand a share of the property of those more fortunate, so as to produce an equality. The whole section seems to be a bitter sarcasm upon the effects of war, representing the generals as cultivators of
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