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performs Khvêtādâd on account of their statements, how is their good work ?" Adharmazd spoke thus : "Like his who keeps in food and clothing, for one winter, a hundred priests—each of which priests has a hundred disciples—such is his good work.”
Zaratûst enquired this, also, of Adharmazd, that is : "As to them who keep a man back from performing Khvêtûdâd, and owing to their statements he shall not perform Khvêtudâd, what is their sin ?” Aliharmazd spoke thus: “Their place is hell.”
'In a passage it is declared that, wiser than the wise, and more virtuous than the virtuous is he in whose thoughts, words, and deeds the demons are less predominant; and Aharman and the demons are less predominant in the body of him who practises Khvêtudâd, and his ritual ? is performed.
'It is declared by revelation that at the time when Zaratūst came out from the presence of Adharmazd, the lord, into a worldly place where he travelled, he spoke this, that is: “Extol the religion! and you should perform Khvêtudâd. I speak of the good and those existing in the religion; as to the negligent, the vile, and those in perplexity, this is said, that a thing so wondrous and important as that which is in our law of Khvêtādad could not be for performance. This is a sublime (kirag) custom, and, as the best of all things, one asserts that it is necessary to perform it. To me, also, this is manifest when, through all faith in the law of those existing in the religion, that which is called by
1 The Pahlavi text is imperfect. See p. 421, note 1.
. That is, the general law of Masda-worship, as distinguished from what he is advocating as a peculiarly religious law sanctioned
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