E.W. West (tr.) - Pahlavi Texts, Part 4

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INTRODUCTION

Abbreviations used in this volume

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Classification, names, and divisions of the Nasks

Sudkar Nask

Varstmansar Nask

Bako Nask

Damdad Nask

Nadar Nask: only the Avesta extant

Pagag Nask: meat-offering, preparations, and priests for season-festivals; ( 10) periods of day and year, fravardikan days; gathering herbs, chastisement of sinners, 33 chieftainship s, apostasy; ( 20) almsgiving, summer and winter, calamity of a century, months

Rado-dad-aitag Nask

Baris Nask: good and evil; advantages and disadvantages of the period

Kaskisrobo Nask

Vistasp-sasto Nask: particulars about Kai-Vistasp, visit of the archangels to him, and his war with Argasp

Vastag Nask: not extant

Kitradad Nask: races and monarchs from Gayomard to Zaratust; ( 17) the Sasanians and some leaders of religion

Spend Nask: birth and life of Zaratust, his vision of the past, future, and other world; ( 12) his posthumous sons, the future apostles

Bakan-yast Nask: worship of the sacred beings and duties of the worshippers

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Patkar-radistan section of the Nikadum Nask: misery from sin and assault, kinds of assault and magisterial enquiry; ( 13) punishment without enquiry, counterassault

Zatamistan section of the same: assault and its consequences, begging and beneficence, perversion, using weapons; conflict through assault, tumult, false-teaching, starving, spells, and threats, by men, women, and children; ill-treatment of slaves, compensation the only atonement, responsibility of fathers for crimes of children

Reshistan section of the same: kinds of wounds, scourging, 76 members of the body, effects of assaults, modes of assaulting, description of a wound and the weapon, curing wounds

Hamemalistan section of the same: various accusations, true and false, and retribution for the offences; pollution, a young woman well taught, slander, care of a pregnant woman, a householder neglecting his family, opinions of quiet and unquiet people; ( 10) cowardice, impenitence, sin of priests, retribution, authority of priests, punishment of judges, illegal action of plaintiff, seizing purity of foreigners, those worthy of death, confession; ( 21) assault with a weapon, curing a wounded person who afterwards dies, security taken from defendant, procrastination by plaintiff, mediation, assaults furious and harmless, punishment of a child for sin, interpretation, signs of approval by the dying; ( 31) undefined assault, killing a foreigner, great hinderers, indiscriminate assault, a frontier governor, striking the living and dead, timber and firewood, atonement and ordeals, physicians, mutilating a horse; ( 41) a wound as evidence of crime, modes of using a weapon, assault and retribution, incarceration, pulling a steed's tail, threats and spells, various plaints and plaintiffs, pleadings inconsistent with accusations; ( 50) master unfriendly to disciple, arresting and prosecuting a thief, the good to be treated like oneself, when carrying off property becomes theft, native and foreign thieves, why the foreigner is unfettered, assailants

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to be restrained, renunciation of sin, avoiding one worthy of death; ( 60) informing about a righteous man giving weapons to generals and governors, execution and reprieve of one worthy of death, witchcraft