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The Pahlavi Rivayat Accompanying the Dadestan I Denig Volume II 352 The Pahlavi Rivayat Accompanying the Dadestan i Denig Volume II Alan Vincent Williams ProQuest Number: 10672688 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a com plete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. uest ProQuest 10672688 Published by ProQuest LLC(2017). Copyright of the Dissertation is held by the Author. All rights reserved. This work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States C ode Microform Edition © ProQuest LLC. ProQuest LLC. 789 East Eisenhower Parkway P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 48106- 1346 TRANSLATION 354 In the Name of God the Giver of Justice Praise to Ohrmazd the Creator the Majestic the Glorious 355 Chapter 1 1.1-7 - - 1 Frawardigan (1) ZarduMt asked this also of Ohrmazd : "At whattime do the frava&is of the righteous come to visit the world?" - - 2 (2) Ohrmazd said : "During the ten days of Frawardigan , at their own time 3 fthat is] the Frawardig days at the beginning of Mah Adur , if one continuously worships them and invokes them". (3) If someone dies during the five Gatha days, then in the first month 4 5 his month-day should be observed in exactly thirty days [time]. In the other months, Roz Frawardin should be observed for him. His year- day should be observed on its proper day.^ (4) If it is not known in which month and on which day he died, then his _ _ y _ q month is Mah Adur and his day is Frawardin. (5) If the month is known,and the day is not known, then hismonth is that which is known, and his day is Roz Frawardin. (6) If the day is known, and the month is not known, then his day is that which is known, [his] month is Mah Adur. (7) If one knows for certain that [he did not die in Mah Adur and one knows — — CJ for certain that] he did not die in Roz Frawardin, then the month Dai and the day Warahran should be observed for him. 356 Chapter 2 2.1-8 Cooked and Uncooked Food; Fire and Water (1) Zardu£t asked this also of Ohrmazd: "If someone dies in a house with ' 1 one door, then what must be done? (2) "(As regards) cooked food which is in the house with one door — cooked 2 food (comprises) bread and stewed and roast meat and (other) eatables— 3 and that which is uncooked , then how shall the periods of 'nine nights' and 'a month' apply to it?" (3) Ohrmazd said: "If someone dies in summer in a house with one door, then until a month passes, one must not go into it; in winter until 4 nine nights pass, one must not go into it . (4) "Food which has not been cooked should not be used in summer until one month is complete, in winter it should not be used until nine days 5 are complete; the cooked (food) is useless . (5) "Whoever brings fire into the house in the periods of ‘nine nights' and the 'month', then he has one tanapuhl6 sin; if he kindles (it) on the same place (where death occurred), (he has) one tanapuhl sin - 7 [and on any other place one yadj. (6) "Whoever brings j&aterj into the house (in the 'nine nights' and the _ g 'month'), then he has one framan sin ; if one pours (it) on the same place (where death occurred), [it is one tanapuhl sirj, and on any - 9 other place one yad. (7) "Should anyone go in on a (mere) whim1® , then has one framan sin. (8) "Any cooked food which they bring into the house is all unclean."11 357 Chapter 3 3.1-8 Bodily Effects of Sins and Good Deeds (1) And this also he1 asked of Ohrmazd: "If a man commits a sinthrough all the bodily members, then to which of his members does its evil come first?" (2) Ohrmazd said: "Because in the human body the organ of the tongue is 2 the most valuable, then it comes first to the tongue (3) And this also he asked: "Then where does it come?" 3 (4) And Ohrmazd said to him: "Then it comes to the heart, and then it comes to his stomach. (5) "And spoilt and hateful children are born of him, because he sins and 4 does not perform good deeds." (6) "If people do good deeds, then to which of their members does the goodness come first?1' (7) Ohrmazd said: "It comes first to the tongue, because the tongue has been created best of all the organs, and then it comes to his heart, and then it comes to his stomach, and then to his whole body. (8) "And well-brought up, dutiful, law-abiding and sociable children will be born of him, because he does good deeds and does not sin." 3!?8 Chapter 4 4.1-2 On Forbearance (1) Ohrmazd said to Zardu£t: "If [someone] were to deceive you in the / world, and intend to do you harm — that is, deprivation of property — then he would be your enemy; speak to him mildly and according to the law, for if you speak mildly and according to the law, then you can better oppose and defeat him than if you were to speak to him angrily and harshly. (2) For if a man of good faith pleads his case, and during the conduct and delivery of the case complains bitterly and pleads the case improperly, then that is worse for him than for a man of bad faith who pleads his case properly and [yet] has injustice in his action; for the sin of a man of deceitful intention arises from ill-will towards someone. It would be the same (lit. ‘thus’) in the case of both, one [is guiltyj of stealing property, and the other of bearing ill-will towards someone."^ Chapter 5 5 Old Age Ohrmazd said this also to Zardu£t: "In the world there is no one by whom this can be done, (namely) that he says this to a person: 'You remain alive, I shall pass away as your substitute' : because everyone passes away from the world, except those who are created immortal.^ Even one who is saved from all evils, then even he is not saved from - 2 old age; for Zarman undertook (to do this) from Ahreman (saying): 'In everything in the end I destroy everyone; from me, (I) who am - 3 Zarman, escape is not possible'. Let them do good deeds, because it is through those that the soul can be (in existence); in no way will 4 the body come to one's help." Chapter 6 6.1-4 On Breaking Covenant (1) ZarduSt asked Ohrmazd: "How many kinds of breaking a covenant are there?" (2) Ohrmazd said: "Six kinds. (3) This also is revealed: when someone breaks a covenant with someone, [the retribution for] that is very swiftf then it will come upon him within nine years. (4) This also is revealed: if a man commits (this) sin and crime -(that is) breaking a covenant - i t comes upon the children who are born to him after the committing of the sin and crime. Chapter 7 7.1-6 The Man of Good Religion and the Maraarpan (1) This also is revealed (when) something occurs to a man of the Good f Religion, and he does not know whether doing it is a good deed or a sin, if it is something of the kind which can be postponed when he does not do it, and he is able to postpone it, then it should not be done but postponed; if he has something of the kind which cannot be postponed, if he has sought and consulted with a dastwar, (if it is) sinless, if he does it, then it will not go to his account; if it is *sinful then it goes to his account, and it mag be cancelled from his account through the decision.1 (2) (When) someone goes over from the faith to which he belongs to another 2 faith, he is margarzan, because he is deserting the faith of the Good Religion, and he is taking up *this bad faith; on account of taking up the worse faith he thereby becomes margarzan. (3) For that faith which came to him through inheritance, then thereby he does not himself become a sinner, and on this day when he takes up another, through that (act) he is a sinner (4) And when someone (who is) margarzan comes to the faith of men of the 4 Good Religion, immediately he becomes righteous. (5) (As regards) the Good Religion, then this (is) the greatest virtue of it, when one accepts it so that one performs worship,then that worship S removes and sweeps away all sin from one's account, like a swift and strong wind when it blows over a plain and sweeps and bears away; and likewise indeed that worship makes the man's soul pure from sin,5 (6) It is revealed that on the day when one performs a ya£t of *Nabarv6 the amahraspands come down from Garodman and carry the soul to Garodman. their own place, three times in that one day, and they bestow goodness upon one and they give one reward and recompense.
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