Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- Abbreviations used in this volume
- DÂDISTÂN-Î DÎNÎK
- EPISTLES OF MÂNÛSKÎHAR
- EPISTLE I. To the good people of Sîrkân
- 1 Introductory compliments, acknowledging receipt of a complaining epistle
- 2 Deploring the false opinions in circulation, owing to the fiend, about the purification ceremonies
- 3 Excusing any defects in this epistle for various reasons detailed
- 4 Deprecating the disuse of the Bareshnûm ceremony, as decreed by his brother ; such disuse being contrary to scripture and the commentaries
- 5 Alluding to the one-sided view of the opinions of the commentators adopted by the decree they had sent
- 6 Discussing the different statements of the commentators as to the number of purifiers and washings
- 7 Discussing the proper quantities of liquids to be used, and the 300 pebbles
- 8 Regarding the stirring up of the bull's urine when fetid, as mentioned in the Sakâdûm Nask
- 9 Deciding that the commentary which teaches the most efficient mode of purification is to be followed, when there are no special reasons for acting otherwise
- 10 Reserving other matters for special instructions to the priests, but warning them not to obey the decree now denounced
- 11 Arranging for the enforcement of his decision, until he can write further, or come himself; and concluding with benediction and date
- EPISTLE II. To his brother, Zâd-sparam
- EPISTLE III. To all of the good religion in Irân. Forbidding the substitution of a fifteenfold washing for the Bareshnûm ceremony; and dated A.Y. 250 (A. D. 881)
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
- CORRECTIONS
2 - Deploring the false opinions in circulation, owing to the fiend, about the purification ceremonies
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- Abbreviations used in this volume
- DÂDISTÂN-Î DÎNÎK
- EPISTLES OF MÂNÛSKÎHAR
- EPISTLE I. To the good people of Sîrkân
- 1 Introductory compliments, acknowledging receipt of a complaining epistle
- 2 Deploring the false opinions in circulation, owing to the fiend, about the purification ceremonies
- 3 Excusing any defects in this epistle for various reasons detailed
- 4 Deprecating the disuse of the Bareshnûm ceremony, as decreed by his brother ; such disuse being contrary to scripture and the commentaries
- 5 Alluding to the one-sided view of the opinions of the commentators adopted by the decree they had sent
- 6 Discussing the different statements of the commentators as to the number of purifiers and washings
- 7 Discussing the proper quantities of liquids to be used, and the 300 pebbles
- 8 Regarding the stirring up of the bull's urine when fetid, as mentioned in the Sakâdûm Nask
- 9 Deciding that the commentary which teaches the most efficient mode of purification is to be followed, when there are no special reasons for acting otherwise
- 10 Reserving other matters for special instructions to the priests, but warning them not to obey the decree now denounced
- 11 Arranging for the enforcement of his decision, until he can write further, or come himself; and concluding with benediction and date
- EPISTLE II. To his brother, Zâd-sparam
- EPISTLE III. To all of the good religion in Irân. Forbidding the substitution of a fifteenfold washing for the Bareshnûm ceremony; and dated A.Y. 250 (A. D. 881)
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
- CORRECTIONS
- Type
- Chapter
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- Pahlavi Texts , pp. 282 - 286Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012First published in: 1882