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classes of the world. 21. As unto the head is priesthood, (22) unto the hand is warriorship, (23) unto the belly is husbandry, (24) and unto the foot is artisanship.
25. So, also, of the four capabilities (hunarân) that are in man-which are temper, ability, wisdom, and diligence-(26) unto temper (khim) is priesthood, as the greatest duty of priests is the temper that they do not commit sin on account of shame and fear; (27) unto ability (hunar) is warriorship, that is, the most princely adornment of warriors is the ability which is expended, the manliness which is owing to self-possession (khvadih); (28) unto husbandmen is the wisdom (khirad) which is strenuous performance of the tillage of the world, and continuance unto the renovation of the universe ; (29) and unto artisans is the diligence (tukhshâkih) which is the greatest advancement of their class.
30. This arrangement of every kind is upon one stem, truth and agreement, opposing the fiend and his appliances which are co-existent. 31. These 3, which are recounted by me, are of many kinds and many species, as many are religious and many believing at a period that all are mutually afflicting“,
1 Or over.' This comparison of these four parts of the body to the four classes of men is mentioned several times in the Dînkard, especially in the latter part of the fourth book.
? That is, the ordinances of religion (see $$ 11-13).
3 The various heterodox religions, here assumed to be appliances of the fiend for misleading mankind, which the author discusses in the course of his arguments hereafter.
Assuming that Pâz. anbasã stands for Pahl, hanbêshin, as in Mkh. I, 37. It might be hû-bêshin, 'well-afflicting, but this would not be so easily reconciled with the meaning 'inconsistent' which the word often assumes, as in Chaps. XIII, 145, 147, XV, 77, XVI, 42.
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