Book Title: Sacred Laws of Aryas
Author(s): Gorge Buhler
Publisher: Oxford

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________________ EPISTLE II, CHAPTER 1, 3-8. 327 interval (tâhiko) a written statement has come unto me that the good people of Strkân are, indeed, so enveloped by you in distress, despondency, and trouble that its counterpart was when there was a liberation of our glorified fathers from the state of material existence. 5. For such as the insufficiency of the whole life of such was then to me, so even is the wounding and damage which comes now to my understanding and intellect. 6. The whole life of such is on the confines of the pure existence, a contest with the complete incorrectness that remains contaminating the liturgy by which the greatest intelligence of the religion of the Mazda-worshippers is aided; a little also, finally, of sagacity and observance of the apportionment of the more grievous impostures and more frightful delusions. 7. And, first of all, as to when your completely vile idea first destroyed your own enlightenment, and quite subdued your seconding of me, is inopportune (avida nå) for me; and that ordinance ?, which though it be also right, is then even grandeur, because it is a law of the realm and an opinion of the world. 8. When even in the mansion of various thoughts, the residence of the assembly of Pârs, and many other conventions to deliberate, and the united opinions of a thousand priestly men (magavôg) of the good religion thereon, it could remain unaltered, then, also, the various good thoughts and opposing considerations that, along with me, the 1 Since he heard from his correspondent. The word cannot be tisgako, nine days,' as that would not tally with the dates of Eps. I and III. . Referring probably to the Bareshnům ceremony which Zádsparam wished to dispense with in many cases. Digitized by Google

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