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OTHER DETAILS OF NASKS.
quadrupeds, grazing animals and birds, and everything which is similarly produced from any (aek) of them, and the characteristics of all things. Secondly, that which is the production of the resurrection and future existence, and the coming together and separation at the Kinvad pass; the recompense for the doers of good works and the punishment for sinners occur through the future existence, and such-like topics as these are.
6. The sixth Nask is Ashâd, the Nâdur, and the subdivisions of that are thirty-five. In this Nask are the purposes of the stars (nugům), the zodiac, and the planets, the goodness and evil of each constellation, and the movement of all the planets in the signs of the zodiac (burg) and lunar mansions (mahigân nugům). They have translated it into Arabic and Persian, and the name they have adopted for this book is Batål, and in Persian the name which is appointed for it is Kapâmấgân.
7. The seventh is this which is Kid, and is the Pagam, and its subdivisions are twenty-two. In this Pâgam Nask is the topic of the slaughtering of quadrupeds and sheep, how they are to be slaughtered, of which among the quadrupeds the command is that it is allowable to eat, and of which kind the eating is not allowable; how he who slaughters shall strike at the time of the expiring of the sheep. The more expenditure (saraf) one makes upon a season-festival, so much the more is the reward; how much it is expedient to bestow upon the Dastûrs, Môbads, and Hêrbads, and upon the unwavering practisers of good works in the good religion; what merit accrues to every one
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| SR No. | 007672 |
| Book Title | Zend Avesta Part 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | James Darmesteter |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1883 |
| Total Pages | 2221 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 41 MB |