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V. TAHMURAS' FRAGMENTS.
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15. (An Ahu and a Ratu) studious and communicant, learning and teaching, loving with a love for ever renewed, in the bodily world of Righteousness.
XIV.-16. (Declare) that the worst of all evils is to have no Ahu and no Ratu;
17. Or to have an evil Ahu.
XV.—18. For the soul of them who have no guide' can never offer up a merit to expiate a sin. 19. . . . . XVI. 20, 21. . . . . .?
XVII. 22% Say not they treat me friendly, me, Ahura Mazda, in the house, in the borough, in the district, in the country,
23. Where they treat not friendly the Fire of me, Ahura Mazda, and the holy man, rich in good thoughts, rich in good words, rich in good deeds s.
XVIII. 24. He must accomplish an act of merit of the value of a tanu-mazô 4, he who hath committed a falsehood of the value of a tanu-mazô.
25. For he layeth up the merit of a tanu-mazô,
26. While he never sinneth a sin of a tanu-mazô, in false thoughts, in false words, in false deeds.
XIX. 27. [That which a man or a woman knoweth clearly to be right, let him or her declare as he knoweth it, let him enact it, let him teach it]
: Cf. Srôsh Yast 14.
• Tanu-mazô, lit. of the value of a tanu-peretha,' means a deed evil or good, which deserves or redeems a tanu-peretha (tanaführ) penalty (200 strokes with the Sraoshô-karana).
o $$ 27-28=Yasna XXXV; 6-7.
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