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SELECTIONS OF ZÂD-SIARAM.
works and the punishment of criminals have to be established by law, for the sake of progress 1.
15. The sixth is to keep the way of the good open to your house, for the sake of making? righteousness welcome in your own abode.
16. The seventh is that, for the sake of not developing the fiend insensibly in your reason, you are not to keep it with the religion of the good ", nor to remain in impenitence of sin.
17. The eighth 4 is that, for the sake of severing the fiend from the reason, you have to force malice away from your thoughts, and to become quickly repentant of sin.
18. The ninth is to fully understand the forward movement of the religion, also to keep the advancing of the religion further forwards, and to seek your share of duty therein; and on a backward movement, when adversity happens to the religion, to have the religion back again, and to keep your body in the continence (makavadih) of religion.
19. The tenth is that there is to be a period of obedience (Srôshdârîh) towards the ruler and priestly authority, the high-priesthood of the religious.
· Ind. vers. adds: 'of religion.'
? Ind. vers. inserts : 'a token of;' and T has: 'making the righteousness of the sacred beings in writing welcome.'
3 Ind. vers. has : 'not to maintain malice with the good,' which is more probable, and kêno, malice,' is easily corrupted into dênô, religion,' in Pahlavi writing.
• This eighth admonition is omitted in the Irânian MSS. $ Ind. vers. adds : 'and backward movement.'
8 Chapter XXV, about the three divisions of revelation, is translated in S. B. E., vol. xxxvii, pp. 401-405.
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