Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- Abbreviations used in this volume
- DÂDISTÂN-Î DÎNÎK
- EPISTLES OF MÂNÛSKÎHAR
- EPISTLE I. To the good people of Sîrkân
- EPISTLE II. To his brother, Zâd-sparam
- 1 Acknowledging receipt of a former epistle, and announcing the arrival of complaints about his brother's reprehensible decree
- 2 Disapproving of the decree and its mode of dealing with the commentaries, whose exact agreement is as unlikely as the simultaneous occurrence of several particular conjunctions of the planets
- 3 Exhorting him not to seek for new rules, but to adhere strictly to the old customs
- 4 Reasserting his opinions, and protesting against the notion that the decree was in accordance with the practice of all the purifiers in Irân
- 5 Commenting upon the secrecy with which the decree had been prepared, and the evil consequences resulting from it
- 6 Persuading him to remain steadfast in the faith, and threatening him if he should not
- 7 Explaining that he had previously written to Sîrkân, and would shortly come there himself; but ordering the appointment of proper purifiers
- 8 Mentioning his general epistle to all of the good religion in Irân, and describing the evil consequences of continued disobedience, including the possibility of his own retreat to foreign lands
- 9 Giving further instructions for satisfying the discontented, and opposing the heterodox; and concluding without date
- 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
3 - Exhorting him not to seek for new rules, but to adhere strictly to the old customs
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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
- EPISTLE II. To his brother, Zâd-sparam
- 1 Acknowledging receipt of a former epistle, and announcing the arrival of complaints about his brother's reprehensible decree
- 2 Disapproving of the decree and its mode of dealing with the commentaries, whose exact agreement is as unlikely as the simultaneous occurrence of several particular conjunctions of the planets
- 3 Exhorting him not to seek for new rules, but to adhere strictly to the old customs
- 4 Reasserting his opinions, and protesting against the notion that the decree was in accordance with the practice of all the purifiers in Irân
- 5 Commenting upon the secrecy with which the decree had been prepared, and the evil consequences resulting from it
- 6 Persuading him to remain steadfast in the faith, and threatening him if he should not
- 7 Explaining that he had previously written to Sîrkân, and would shortly come there himself; but ordering the appointment of proper purifiers
- 8 Mentioning his general epistle to all of the good religion in Irân, and describing the evil consequences of continued disobedience, including the possibility of his own retreat to foreign lands
- 9 Giving further instructions for satisfying the discontented, and opposing the heterodox; and concluding without date
- 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. 336 - 341Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012First published in: 1882