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any one departs from the world', it is necessary to make an effort, in those three days, so that they may continuously perform the ceremonial of Srôsha and make the fire blaze, and may recite the Avesta ; because the soul is three days in this worlds.
2. The fourth night it is requisite to consecrate three sacred cakes; one with a dedication to Rashn 4 and Âstâd, one with a dedication to the spirit Râm®, and one with a dedication to the righteous guardian spirit; and one is to consecrate a dress and something as a righteous gift for that soul?.
3. It is necessary that the dress be new and of uniform quality (gins), and such as turban, shirt, vest, girdle, trowsers, shoes (pasandil), and mouthveil. 4. Since they give those among the spirits a counterpart of those garments, therefore, whatever is more beautiful, and more surpassing in grandeur for the soul in that place, is necessary where that place is, because our fathers and mothers and the whole of our relations are in that place. 5. And since the souls recognise and ask after one another in that world, they are, therefore, more joyful on account of every one whose dress and grandeur are more surpassing. 6. In a similar manner, when the dress is old and ragged, they are ashamed, and exhibit heaviness of heart.
· La omits from the world.' ? See Mkh. II, 115 n, Sls. XVII, 3. See Mkh. II, 114, 158. • See Mkh. II, 118, 119, Sls. XVII, 4.
• Av. arstâd, 'uprightness ;' the angel whose name is given to the twenty-sixth day of the Parsi month.
• The angel of the upper air, often called Vkê the good. ? B29 has on that cake. 8 B29 has mûzah, .boots,' and places them last. · B29 inserts is more beautiful.'
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