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CHAPTER LXIII, 3-LXIV, 3.
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tuous deeds are set going by him who teaches learned sayings and virtuous deeds to him who is good; even for this reason, because the reception of the progressive supply of virtue by the learned becomes more complete.
11. Perfect is the excellence of righteousness.
CHAPTER LXIV.
Bako Nask. 1. The eighteenth fargard, Ad-mâ-yava?, is that, through his complete mindfulness 3, the teaching of mankind in virtue is by him, and they become properly intelligents through him, whose actions are those which are more daughterly, that is, as reverent unto Allharmazd as a daughter unto a father ; even for this reason, because his display of the complete mindfulness which is instinctive (åsnik) is through action, and that action, acquired (srûtik) for the thoughts of mankind, is kindled by him and has become properly intelligent. 2. This, too, that proper intelligence of things arises for one completely mindful, even for a daughter to a father, through that complete mindfulness which is instinctive, whereby that lust is excluded which is most violently reverenced by the male (kasno), and, devoid of that, the reverence is assimilated (ângunihinido) most strongly to one's reverence unto the creator.
3. This, too, that discrimination of the affairs of the sacred beings through wisdom * is taught by him
· See Pahl. Yas. XLVII, 12 C.
See Chap. XIX, in; it is here written a d-ma-yav in Pahlavi. 3 See Pahl, Yas. XLVIII, 5 c.
• Ibid. 6 b.
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