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OTHER DETAILS OF NASKS.
21. The name of the twentieth is Gud-dêv-dâd1, and that is of twenty-two subdivisions; its explanation is of causing the abstinence of mankind from pollution, that is, from defilement, and the assault of evil peculiarly owing to the great; from the sight of a menstruous woman, and the like of these, whenever harm and injury happen to the creation.
22. The name of the twenty-first is Hâdokht, and this is a book of thirty subdivisions; its explanation is such that the accursed devil goes far from every one who shall recite this book together with the Yast, and this person becomes near unto the sacred being, the praiseworthy and exalted, and in such manner as he is near the sacred being in like manner he obtains rank.
23. And the purpose of this being written is so, that it is known to these humble individuals 2 in this manner, that these books are of those tendencies, and it has been written by those devout ones in such manner that 'among us no one is able to read the Pahlavi characters, and the interpretation of these Nasks is in Pahlavi; any one who does not know the Pahlavi characters is high-priest and is not able to demonstrate the miracles of the religion, nor that which was written with regard to the commentary of these Nasks.'
1 Pâz. gud is a translation of Av. vi which is merely transliterated by vîk in Vîk-dev-dâd, the original form of Vendîdâd.
• The priests in Irân who supplied this information to Narêmân. The priests in India who had applied for the information, using the words about to be quoted.
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| SR No. | 007682 |
| Book Title | Questions of King Milinda Part 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | T W Rhys Davids |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1894 |
| Total Pages | 2240 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 38 MB |