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III. MEANING OF KHVỆTOK-DAS.
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tadad becomes just as though one-third of all this world, with the water, with the trees, and with the corn, had been given by him, as a righteous gift, unto a righteous man. When he keeps two years in the marriage it is as though two-thirds of this world, with the water, trees, and corn, had been given by him unto a righteous man. When he keeps three years in the marriage it is as though all this world, with the water, with the trees, and with everything, had been given by him, as a righteous gift, unto a righteous man. And when he keeps four years in his marriage, and his ritual' is performed, it is known that his soul thereby goes unto the supreme heaven (garôdmân); and when the ritual is not performed, it goes thereby to the ordinary heaven (vahisto).
Zaratust enquired of Adharmazd thus: “As to the man who practises Khvêtādâd, and his ritual is performed, and he also offers a ceremonial (yazisnoaê), is the good work of it such as if one without Khvêtadad had offered it, or which way is it?" Adharmazd said: “It is just as though a hundred men without Khvêtādad had offered it."
* Zaratust enquired this, also, of Adharmazd, that is: “How is the benediction (afrino) which a man who practises Khvêtādad shall offer ?" Adharmazd spoke thus: “As though a hundred men without Khvêtudâd should offer the benediction."
And this, too, was asked by him, that is : “As to them who render assistance, and one meditates and attains to Khvêtddåd through them, and one
The proper ceremonies after his death, or for his living soul during his lifetime (see Dd. XXVIII, LXXXI).
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