Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- Abbreviations used in this volume
- DÂDISTÂN-Î DÎNÎK
- 1 Introductory
- 2 Why a righteous man is better than all creatures, spiritual or worldly
- 3 Why a righteous man is created, and how he should act
- 4 Why a righteous man is great
- 5 How temporal distress is to be regarded
- 6 Why the good suffer more than the bad in this world
- 7 Why we are created, and what we ought to do
- 8 Whether good works done for the dead differ in effect from those ordered or done by themselves
- 9 How far they differ
- 10 The growth of good works during life
- 11 Whether the growth of a good work be as commendable as the original good work
- 12 Whether it eradicates sin equally well
- 13 Whether one is made responsible for all his sins and good works separately at the last account, or only for their balance
- 14 The angels who take account of sin and good works, and how sinners are punished
- 15 The exposure of a corpse does not occasion the final departure of life, and is meritorious
- 16 Whether the soul be aware of, or disturbed by, the corpse being gnawed
- 17 Reasons for the exposure of corpses
- 18 How the corpse and bones are to be disposed of
- 19 Whether departed souls can see Aûharmazd and Aharman
- 20 Where the souls of the righteous and wicked go
- 21 The Dâîtih peak, the Kinvad bridge, and the two paths of departed souls
- 22 Whether the spirits are distressed when a righteous man dies
- 23 How the life departs from the body
- 24 Where a righteous soul stays for the first three nights after death, and what it does next
- 25 Where a wicked soul stays for the first three nights after death, and what it does next
- 26 The nature of heaven and its pleasures
- 27 The nature of hell and its punishments
- 28 Why ceremonies in honour of Srôsh are performed for the three days after a death
- 29 Why Srôsh must be reverenced separately from other angels
- 30 Why three sacred cakes are consecrated at dawn after the third night from a death
- 31 How a righteous soul goes to heaven, and what it finds and does there
- 32 How a wicked soul goes to hell, and what it finds and suffers there
- 33 The position and subdivisions of hell
- 34 The two ways from the Dâîtih peak; that of the righteous to heaven, and that of the wicked to hell
- 35 The continuance of mankind in the world till the resurrection
- 36 The preparers of the renovation of the universe
- 37 The contest of the good and evil spirits from the creation till the resurrection, and the condition of creation after the resurrection
- 38 The effect of doing more good works than are necessary for attaining to the supreme heaven
- 39 Reasons for wearing the sacred thread-girdle
- 40 On the sacred shirt and thread-girdle, grace before and after eating, and cleansing the mouth before the aftergrace
- 41 The sin of apostasy, and how to atone for it
- 42 The good works of him who saves others from apostasy
- 43 The distance at which the fire can be addressed, the use of a lamp, and the proper order of the propitiatory dedications, when consecrating a sacred cake
- 44 Whether a skilful priest who is employed to perform ceremonies, but is not officially the priest of the district, should be paid a regular stipend
- 45 The separate duties of priests and disciples
- 46 When a priest can abandon the priesthood to obtain a livelihood
- 47 Whether a priest who knows the Avesta, or one who understands the commentary, be more entitled to the foremost place at a sacred feast
- 48 The advantage and proper mode of celebrating the ceremonial
- 49 Whether it be lawful to buy corn and keep it long, so as to raise the price for the sake of profit
- 50 Whether it be lawful to sell wine to foreigners and infidels
- 51 The sin of drunkenness, and what constitutes immoderate drinking
- 52 Whether a man who bargains to deliver wheat in a month, and takes a deposit, is bound to deliver the wheat if its market-price has risen enormously
- 53 Whether it be lawful to sell cattle to those of a different religion
- 54 Whether a man without a son can give away his property to one daughter on his death-bed; the laws of inheritance, and when an adopted son must be appointed, in such a case
- 55 Whose duty it is to order the ceremonies after a death
- 56 The laws of adoption and family-guardianship
- 57 Those who are fit, or unfit, for adoption
- 58 The three kinds of adoption
- 59 The least amount of property that requires the appointment of an adopted son
- 60 The sin of not appointing an adopted son, or of appointing a dishonest one
- 61 The merit and demerit of family-guardianship
- 62 The laws of inheritance
- 63 Whether it be lawful to seize property from foreigners and infidels
- 64 The origin of Gâyômard, Mashyâîh, and Mashyâyôîh
- 65 The origin of next-of-kin marriage
- 66 Regarding the cost of religious rites, and whether a priest's fees can be reduced when others will take less
- 67 The cause of the rainbow
- 68 The cause of the phases of the moon
- 69 The cause of eclipses
- 70 The causes of river-beds
- 71 What things happen through destiny, and what through exertion
- 72 The seven heinous sinners, and the necessity of avoiding him who commits unnatural intercourse
- 73 Whether the stench of such intercourse reaches the sky
- 74 Whether that stench disturbs the archangels
- 75 Whether the angels raise such a sinner from the dead at the resurrection
- 76 Whether it be a good work to kill such a sinner
- 77 Why such intercourse is a heinous sin
- 78 Why adultery is heinous, and how one can atone for it
- 79 The sin of not repeating the full grace before drinking (when one is able to do so), and how one can atone for it
- 80 Regarding him who does not order ceremonies
- 81 About the ceremonies for the living soul
- 82 About him who pays for ceremonies and him who takes the money without performing them
- 83 Whether a priest must undertake all religious rites
- 84 Whether gifts to the priesthood for ceremonies can be diminished or increased
- 85 The advantages of increasing such gifts
- 86 The harm of diminishing such gifts
- 87 Why it is good to give such gifts
- 88 About the cost of religious rites in Pârs
- 89 Whether when a man has once resolved to go into Pârs, with gifts for the priesthood, it be lawful for him to send another man with the gifts
- 90 The seven immortal rulers in the region of Khvanîras before the coming of the good religion
- 91 The nature and material of the sky
- 92 The course and benefit of the water of Arekdvisûr
- 93 Tistar's seizing of water from the ocean to rain it upon the earth, and his conflict with Apâôsh
- 94 Conclusion
- EPISTLES OF MÂNÛSKÎHAR
89 - Whether when a man has once resolved to go into Pârs, with gifts for the priesthood, it be lawful for him to send another man with the gifts
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- Abbreviations used in this volume
- DÂDISTÂN-Î DÎNÎK
- 1 Introductory
- 2 Why a righteous man is better than all creatures, spiritual or worldly
- 3 Why a righteous man is created, and how he should act
- 4 Why a righteous man is great
- 5 How temporal distress is to be regarded
- 6 Why the good suffer more than the bad in this world
- 7 Why we are created, and what we ought to do
- 8 Whether good works done for the dead differ in effect from those ordered or done by themselves
- 9 How far they differ
- 10 The growth of good works during life
- 11 Whether the growth of a good work be as commendable as the original good work
- 12 Whether it eradicates sin equally well
- 13 Whether one is made responsible for all his sins and good works separately at the last account, or only for their balance
- 14 The angels who take account of sin and good works, and how sinners are punished
- 15 The exposure of a corpse does not occasion the final departure of life, and is meritorious
- 16 Whether the soul be aware of, or disturbed by, the corpse being gnawed
- 17 Reasons for the exposure of corpses
- 18 How the corpse and bones are to be disposed of
- 19 Whether departed souls can see Aûharmazd and Aharman
- 20 Where the souls of the righteous and wicked go
- 21 The Dâîtih peak, the Kinvad bridge, and the two paths of departed souls
- 22 Whether the spirits are distressed when a righteous man dies
- 23 How the life departs from the body
- 24 Where a righteous soul stays for the first three nights after death, and what it does next
- 25 Where a wicked soul stays for the first three nights after death, and what it does next
- 26 The nature of heaven and its pleasures
- 27 The nature of hell and its punishments
- 28 Why ceremonies in honour of Srôsh are performed for the three days after a death
- 29 Why Srôsh must be reverenced separately from other angels
- 30 Why three sacred cakes are consecrated at dawn after the third night from a death
- 31 How a righteous soul goes to heaven, and what it finds and does there
- 32 How a wicked soul goes to hell, and what it finds and suffers there
- 33 The position and subdivisions of hell
- 34 The two ways from the Dâîtih peak; that of the righteous to heaven, and that of the wicked to hell
- 35 The continuance of mankind in the world till the resurrection
- 36 The preparers of the renovation of the universe
- 37 The contest of the good and evil spirits from the creation till the resurrection, and the condition of creation after the resurrection
- 38 The effect of doing more good works than are necessary for attaining to the supreme heaven
- 39 Reasons for wearing the sacred thread-girdle
- 40 On the sacred shirt and thread-girdle, grace before and after eating, and cleansing the mouth before the aftergrace
- 41 The sin of apostasy, and how to atone for it
- 42 The good works of him who saves others from apostasy
- 43 The distance at which the fire can be addressed, the use of a lamp, and the proper order of the propitiatory dedications, when consecrating a sacred cake
- 44 Whether a skilful priest who is employed to perform ceremonies, but is not officially the priest of the district, should be paid a regular stipend
- 45 The separate duties of priests and disciples
- 46 When a priest can abandon the priesthood to obtain a livelihood
- 47 Whether a priest who knows the Avesta, or one who understands the commentary, be more entitled to the foremost place at a sacred feast
- 48 The advantage and proper mode of celebrating the ceremonial
- 49 Whether it be lawful to buy corn and keep it long, so as to raise the price for the sake of profit
- 50 Whether it be lawful to sell wine to foreigners and infidels
- 51 The sin of drunkenness, and what constitutes immoderate drinking
- 52 Whether a man who bargains to deliver wheat in a month, and takes a deposit, is bound to deliver the wheat if its market-price has risen enormously
- 53 Whether it be lawful to sell cattle to those of a different religion
- 54 Whether a man without a son can give away his property to one daughter on his death-bed; the laws of inheritance, and when an adopted son must be appointed, in such a case
- 55 Whose duty it is to order the ceremonies after a death
- 56 The laws of adoption and family-guardianship
- 57 Those who are fit, or unfit, for adoption
- 58 The three kinds of adoption
- 59 The least amount of property that requires the appointment of an adopted son
- 60 The sin of not appointing an adopted son, or of appointing a dishonest one
- 61 The merit and demerit of family-guardianship
- 62 The laws of inheritance
- 63 Whether it be lawful to seize property from foreigners and infidels
- 64 The origin of Gâyômard, Mashyâîh, and Mashyâyôîh
- 65 The origin of next-of-kin marriage
- 66 Regarding the cost of religious rites, and whether a priest's fees can be reduced when others will take less
- 67 The cause of the rainbow
- 68 The cause of the phases of the moon
- 69 The cause of eclipses
- 70 The causes of river-beds
- 71 What things happen through destiny, and what through exertion
- 72 The seven heinous sinners, and the necessity of avoiding him who commits unnatural intercourse
- 73 Whether the stench of such intercourse reaches the sky
- 74 Whether that stench disturbs the archangels
- 75 Whether the angels raise such a sinner from the dead at the resurrection
- 76 Whether it be a good work to kill such a sinner
- 77 Why such intercourse is a heinous sin
- 78 Why adultery is heinous, and how one can atone for it
- 79 The sin of not repeating the full grace before drinking (when one is able to do so), and how one can atone for it
- 80 Regarding him who does not order ceremonies
- 81 About the ceremonies for the living soul
- 82 About him who pays for ceremonies and him who takes the money without performing them
- 83 Whether a priest must undertake all religious rites
- 84 Whether gifts to the priesthood for ceremonies can be diminished or increased
- 85 The advantages of increasing such gifts
- 86 The harm of diminishing such gifts
- 87 Why it is good to give such gifts
- 88 About the cost of religious rites in Pârs
- 89 Whether when a man has once resolved to go into Pârs, with gifts for the priesthood, it be lawful for him to send another man with the gifts
- 90 The seven immortal rulers in the region of Khvanîras before the coming of the good religion
- 91 The nature and material of the sky
- 92 The course and benefit of the water of Arekdvisûr
- 93 Tistar's seizing of water from the ocean to rain it upon the earth, and his conflict with Apâôsh
- 94 Conclusion
- EPISTLES OF MÂNÛSKÎHAR
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- Pahlavi Texts , pp. 254 - 255Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012First published in: 1882