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when it is proper, it is well allowable in that case that they should seize from the foreigners. 3. So long as it is the lawful order of the procurator of its owners' it is allowable for a just decider to consider properly, and to demand authoritatively the sending of interest (sadó) thereon for himself. 4. But if they proceed in their obstinacy he is sent to come up with them in obstinacy, not to dissemble with them?.
5. It is the custom to give an infidel (ak-dino), who is not a foreigner, food, clothing, and medicine, when his renunciation (vâz) has come, for keeping away matters (kisano) of death and sickness owing to hunger and thirst, cold and heat; but wealth, horses, accoutrements, wine, and land are not given authorisedly, it is said, unto foreigners and idolators 3.
CHAPTER LXIV. 1. As to the sixty-third question and reply, that which you ask is thus: Whence was the first creation of mankind, and how was the formation of the original race of men ? 2. What issued from Gâyômard", and what did it really become; and from what have Mashyâih and Mashyâyôtho arisen ?
3. The reply is this, that Adharmazd, the all
* Reading vad zak amatas khudâyên ayaoi-aftar farmân-i da dik. The form of a yâdî-aitar has not yet been met with elsewhere, but it seems to mean 'one who holds the obtainment,' though whether as agent or officer of justice is uncertain.
* M14 has merely but should they proceed in their obstinacy, to come with them is not to dissemble.' • Literally demon-worshippers.
See Chap. II, 10. • The same as the Marhaya and Marhîyðih of Chap. XXXVII, 82.
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