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DÎNA-I MAINÔG-I KHIRAD.
13. Of grains wheat is called great and good, (14) because it is the chief of grains?, (15) and even by the Avesta its name is then specified in the chieftainship of grains ?.
16. 'And of fruit the date and grape are called great and good. 17. When bread has not come, it is necessary to consecrate the sacred cake by means of fruits; (18) when the fruit to consecrate is the date or grape, it is allowable to eat every fruit; (19) and when those have not come, it is necessary to eat that fruit which is consecrated4.
20. “Regarding wine it is evident, that it is possible for good and bad temper to come to manifestation through wine. 21. The goodness of a man is manifested in anger, the wisdom of a man in irregular desire. 22. For he whom anger hurries on (alls
1 It is called the chief of large-seeded grains' in Bd. XXIV, 19.
? Possibly in the Pâzag Nask, part of which was 'about the thirty-three first chieftainships of the existences around, that is, how many of which are spiritual and how many worldly existences, and which is the second, and which the third of the spiritual and worldly existences,' as stated in the eighth book of the Dînkard.
3 That is, when a cake cannot be made, fruit can be substituted for it in the ceremony of consecrating the sacred cakes. The sacred cake, or drôn, is a small, round, flexible pancake of unleavened wheaten bread, about the size of the palm of the hand, which, after consecration, is tasted by all those present at the ceremony (see Sls. III, 32 n).
• Fruit and wine are usually consecrated and eaten, in the Afrîngân ceremony, after the completion of the Drôn ceremony, but sometimes the Afrîngân is celebrated alone. Both ceremonies are performed in honour of some angel, or the guardian spirit of some deceased person (see Haug's Essays, pp. 407-409).
5 TD2 has through the nature of wine;' but âs, wine,' is written mas.
OTD2 has the good of a man is in anger, and the wisdom of a man in lust exciting viciousness.'
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