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CONTENTS OF THE NASKS.
DINKARD, Book VIII. 1. Classification, names, and divisions of the Nasks 2. Sadkar Nask 3. Varstmânsar Nas 4. Bako Nask 5. Damdâd Nask
. . 13 6. Nådar Nask: only the Avesta extant . 7. Pågag Nask: meat-offering, preparations, and priests for
season-festivals; ($ 10) periods of day and year, fravardikân days; gathering herbs, chastisement of sinners, 33 chieftainships, apostasy; ($ 20) almsgiving, summer
and winter, calamity of a century, months. . . 8. Radó-dad-astag Nask . . . . . . . 9. Baris Nask: good and evil; advantages and disadvan
tages of the period . . . . . . . 20 10. Kaskisrôbô Nask . . . . . . . 23 11. Vistasp-sastó Nask: particulars about Kai-Vistâsp, visit
of the archangels to him, and his war with Argåsp . 23 12. Vastag Nask: not extant . . . . . . 25 13. Kitradâd Nask : races and monarchs from Gayomard to
Zaratûst; ($ 17) the Sasanians and some leaders of
religion . . . . . . . . . 25 14. Spend Nask: birth and life of Zaratůst, his vision of the
past, future, and other world ; ($ 12) his posthumous sons, the future apostles, .
. . . 31 15. Bakân-yast Nask: worship of the sacred beings and
duties of the worshippers . . . . . . 34
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