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III. MEANING OF KHVÊTŮK-DAS.
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that thereupon they shall excite a brother and sister with mutual desire, so that they shall perform Khvêtûk-das with unanimity, and before midday are generated a radiance which is sublime, centred in the face, and peeping glances (vêniko alas); and they make the radiance, which is openly manifest, grow up in altitude the height of three spears of a length of three reeds each"; and after midday they have learned expulsion (rânakih?), and shall renounce the fiend who is before the destroyer.' This is clearly an allusion to the Khvêtûk-das of brother and sister, as it can hardly be considered as merely referring to the arrangement of marriages between their children.
Second, regarding the earlier part of the fourteenth fargard of the Bako Nask :- And this, too, that the performance of whatever would be a causer of procreation for the doers of actions is extolled as the perfect custom of the first Khvêtûk-das; because causing the procreation of the doers of actions is the fatherhood of mankind, the proper fatherhood of mankind is through the proper production of pro geny, the proper production of progeny is the cultivation of progeny in one's own with the inclinations (khimiha) of a first wish, and the cultivation of progeny in one's own is Khvêtāk-das. And he who extols the fatherhood of mankind, when it is a causer of the procreation of the doers of actions, has also extolled Khvêtūk-das. And this, too, that the proper nurture for the creatures, by him whose wish is for
· A height of about 42 English feet (see Dd. XLIII, 5).
? That is, the capability of expelling the fiends that try to take possession of man.
* Reading gâm (=kam), but it may be dâm, creature.'
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