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CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
PAGK CHAPTER I. THE DISCOVERY OF THE ZEND-AVESTA . . xiii
, II. THE INTERPRETATION OF THE ZEND-AVESTA xxvii , III. THE FORMATION OF THE ZEND-AVESTA . xxxi
IV. PARTHIAN ELEMENTS IN THE AVESTA . . xlvii , V. BRÅHMANICAL, BUDDHIST, AND GREEK ELE
MENTS . . . . . . . . li VI. JEWISH ELEMENTS IN THE RELIGION . » VII. ACHAEMENIAN AND EARLIER ELEMENTS . lx „VIII. AGE AND GROWTH OF THE AVESTA . . lxiv , IX. CONCLUSIONS . . . . . . . lxvii , X. THE VENDIDÅD . . . . . . . lxx
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TRANSLATION OF THE VENDIDÅD. FARGARD I. AN ENUMERATION OF SIXTEEN PERFECT LANDS
CREATED BY AHURA MAZDA, AND OF AS MANY
PLAGUES CREATED IN OPPOSITION BY ANGRA MAINYU FARGARD II. MYTHS OF YIMA . . . . . . FARGARD III. THE EARTH . . . . . . .
I (1-6). What comforts most the Genius of the Earth? . II (7-11). What discomforts most the Genius of the Earth? III (12-35). What rejoices the Earth most? . . .
IV (36-42). A development forbidding the burialof the dead FARGARD IV. CONTRACTS AND OUTRAGES. . . ..
I (1). . . . . . . . . . . . I a 2). Classification of the contracts according to the
value of their object . . . . . . . (3-4). A contract is cancelled by paying the amount of
the contract higher by one degree . . . . (5-10). Religious responsibility of the family for the
breach of a contract by one of its members. . (11-16). Punishment of the Mihir-Drug (one who breaks
a contract) . . . . . . . . II a (17). Definition of the outrages known as agerepta
(threatening attitude), avaoirista (assault), aredus
(blows) . . . . . . . . . (18-21). Penalties for menaces . . . . . (22-25). Assaults . .
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