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Chapter I

Chapter I

DÎNKARD.—BOOK IX.

CHAPTER I 1.

1. Satisfaction (shnôkhar) to the creator Aûharmazd, and obeisance to the Mazda-worshipping religion.

2. The ninth book (babâ) is about the Hâs and Fargards 2 of the various Nasks; the object of procuring the division of those portions which exist being owing to the quantity of what is in each one of the Nasks; also an explanation of a suitable selection 3 therefrom, such as is an epitome (nisangag-1) of the abundant detail therein.

Footnotes
  1. 172:1

    From this point to Chap. XXXI, 17 the text is also found in a second MS, (K) which is independent of the MS. B brought to Surat in A.D. 1783, the original of all the Bombay copies.

  2. 172:2

    See Bk. VIII, Chap. I, 20, 23. The contents of these are detailed below, in Chaps. II-LXVIII, so far as the first three Nasks are concerned.

  3. 172:3

    Referring to Chap. LXIX.

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