________________
VI. ERPATISTÂN AND NIRANGISTÂN. 339
Who have plentiful living,
And dream of a surplus of meat;
If such men recite not (the prayers)',
He who celebrates the festival can charge them with non-celebration.
54. Whose meat-offering is accepted?
The offering of a man, of a woman, of a child. The property seized on a criminal is accepted. The property seized on heathens who have broken a treaty is accepted;
2
Also the property that is brought having been seized on the committer of an unexpiated aredus; The property seized in consequence of an ordeal;
55.
56. Sheep diseased, wounded, or lean, are not accepted.
Sheep not diseased, not wounded, and not leanfleshed, are accepted.
57. Milk cooked or not cooked, from a fat cow or from a lean COW, is accepted.
Meat is accepted; cooked, not uncooked; from fat cattle, not from lean cattle.
... and... are accepted; cooked, not uncooked; fat, not lean
Paê aênyâikid (paêmainyâikid?) zaothraya.
58. hvô istaêsva pasus hvis.
Yo pasum avâi vinaoiti [paska] hû-frâshmô-dâitîm asao
kantad paiti åthrâd.
Yatha va azo skaênis yatha hus pereso.
1 However rich may be their offerings.
8
Foreigners, non-Zoroastrians.
Z 2
Digitized by
Google
