THE PERSIAN RIVAYATS

CONTENTS

1. Pahlavi and Avesta Alphabet
2. Yatha-ahu-vairyo prayer in Avesta
3. 21 words of Yatha, and the corresponding 21 Nasks
4. Contents of the Nasks
5. Division of the Nasks into three groups
6. Number of Yathas to be recited on undertaking different works
7. Number of Yathas recited in various Yasna-services
8. Number of Yathas recited in place of various Avesta prayers
9. Efficacy of Ashem-vohu recited on various occasions
10. Commentary on Ashem-vohu
11. Tying the Kusti on the waist. At what age should a child be invested with the Kusti. The three bands and the four knots of the Kusti -- their object. The weaving of Kusti -- by whom woven and of what material should it be
12. The ceremony of Navzud [Naojote], i.e., investiture with sudre and Kusti, according to the practice of the Indian Parsees
13. Avestic formula for ceremonially cutting a newly woven Kusti
14. How far should one keep oneself away, while another is tying on the Kusti
15. In what direction to turn while tying on the Kusti at night, if there be no lamp
16. What kind of sacred shirt (sudre) is to be worn beneath the Kusti
17. sudre and Kusti should be flawless: how far the flaws in a sudre or Kusti are allowable.
18. How far does the appearance of a menstruous woman affect the rite of tying on the Kusti
19. Importance of Patet, i.e., repentance of one's sins
20. A Dastur prescribing punishment out of proportion to the crime is a sinner
21. Patet formula recited by one person for another is allowable in the case of the former's incapacity for its recital
22. An impious Dastur cannot prescribe punishment for sins
23. One must repent of one's sins chiefly in one's lifetime
24. The recital of Patet for one after one's death
25. One should repent of one's sins before a Dastur, chiefly the day Ram, of the month Mihr
26. Can a behdin (a layman) punish a Herbad (a priest) for his sins
27. Manure prepared by a darvand for cultivation
28. Speaking the truth
29. On speaking falsehood
30. On Mihr-druj, i.e. breach of faith
31. On swearing and perjury
32. Saogand-Nama or the Book of Oaths (2 treatises)
33. On loans and the interest thereon
34. The law of evidence
35. Cultivation of land in partnership
36. Loans and extortions from juddins
37. Lawful and unlawful trading and profiteering
38. Industry and unlawful acquisition of wealth
39. Behests of parents to be executed by children
40. Decision about intended gifts
41. The creation of the world: man, fire, and cattle refused to come down to this world
42. Fire and Kershasp
43. Care of fire
44. Rays of the sun should not fall on fire and other precautions to be taken with respect to fire
45. Water in a pot left boiling over fire should not be allowed to overflow
46. Collecting household fires and carrying them to fires of the higher grade
47. Fire lighted at midnight destroys devs
48. Fire to be kept apart from water
49. Household fires to be collected and carried to Atash-gahs
50. Fire before which Darun and Yasna ceremonies are performed, if allowed to be extinguished, will increase the power of devs
51. Food cannot be prepared on fire wherein nasa is burnt
52. Descending order of merit for fires -- whereon a corpse or other impurities are burnt -- removed to Atash-gahs
53. Fire lighted near the Dakhma
54. Names of six kinds of fire
55. Adar Burzin, Adar Khordad, and Adar Gushasp fires
56. Atash Adarans to be established at every place where there are Behdins, and during the Fravardegan days these fires should be collected and carried to Atash Behrams
57. How to consecrate an Atash Adaran
58. Atash Behrams to be established wherever there are Behdins
59. Fire of lightning should not be used in the consecration of an Atash Behram
60. Sixteen fires necessary for the consecration of an Atash Behram -- how they are purified
61. What kind of gospend to be sacrificed for the zur (i.e., fat-offering) of the fire
62. [Miracle of the fire Adar Burzin Mihr]
63. [Atash Behram of Navsari]
64. Out of one Atash Behram, two cannot be made
65. No one can see the fire of an Atash Behram, except Dasturs, and Herbads who are Navazud, i.e., who have been qualified with the greater Khub ceremony
66. About the establishment of fire-temples and the care of fire
67. The fifth question from the Gajasta Abalish about the adoration of fire
68. [Gifts for the Atash Behram may be accepted from those of a foreign faith]
69. Fire and water to be kept at a distance from nasa
70. Punishment for bringing nasa in contact with water and fire
71. Do water and fire kill men?
72. Punishment for throwing nasa frequently in water
73. First and second questions from 'Gajasta Abalish' about water and fire
74. Water to be properly preserved from the impurity of nasa and explanation of rain-water falling on nasa in the Dakhma
75. The nasa of the living is the same as nasa of the dead, when taken to fire or water
76. Hihar-nasa (i.e. the bodily refuse of the living and the dead) coming in contact with a heap of corn in corn fields
77. How far should the Barsom and other sacred implements be kept away from the Nasa of the living
78. Difference observed as regards the culpability of the righteous and the wicked, when the bodily refuse of either comes in contact with water or fire
79. Before cultivating land, care should be taken to free it of nasa, if any
80. Proper precautions about nasa to be observed in the cultivation of the fields of a Zoroastrian under the superintendence of Zoroastrian or non-Zoroastrian servants
81. Cultivation of a field held by a Zoroastrian in partnership with a juddin
82. How should a Zoroastrian act when he sees nasa on a piece of land cultivated by a juddin
83. Precautions about dead matter in flowing and stagnant waters
84. Disposal of the nasa of a non-Zoroastrian lying on the road, by Zoroastrians
85. How should nasa lying on the main road be disposed of
86. How should nasa of Behdins or juddins lying in a cultivated field be disposed of
87. Well-water polluted by nasa
88. Water should not be drunk nor spilt unnecessarily at night and other precautions about water
89. How and when should the water of ponds be used
90. Different kinds of water spilt on the earth mixes with sub-soil water at different periods and about the water of Aredvi Sura Anahita
91. Alburz mountain, Farakh-kart sea and Khar-i talata (i.e., the three-legged ass)
92. The Saokant Mountain
93. The Hom-tree and the Kar fish
94. The Khar-i talata and the Hom-tree, according to the Menog-e Khrad
95. The birds Amrush and Chamrush
96. [The sea-ox Sarsaok]
97. Walking bare-footed
98. [Happy and unhappy lands]
99. [On making water]
100. Foundation laying of the Dakhma (i.e., the tana ceremony)
101. Construction of a new Dakhma and repairing an old Dakhma
102. Water collecting in the inner well, of the Dakhma should be let out by boring a hole into it
103. Quotation from Vendidad 3 about the Dakhma
104. About erecting a new Dakhma, and keeping water away from nasa
105. Controversy raised at Surat about the disposal of the corpse of Nanabhai Punjya in a new Dakhma
106. Plan of the Dakhma
107. How should land be cultivated in which a Dakhma or an old astodan (ossuary) stands, or if there is any bodily refuse of the living on it
108. How should nasa be removed by the nasa-salars in the inner well of the Dakhma
109. Ceremonial disposal of the corpse of a person killed by a wild animal
110. Juddins cannot carry the biers of Zoroastrians
111. Precautions to be taken by the nasa-salars and hammals (i.e., the principal and assistant corpse-bearers), if blood or any matter exudes from the body, or if the paiwand is let slip, or if they utter anything without finishing the baj
112. The dasturi formula
113. What should the nasa-salars do, if any open part of their body or their garments comes in contact with nasa
114. How should one purify oneself after coming in contact with a dead dog
115. Precautions observed by nasa-salars when their hands with the gloves on come in contact with any bare part of nasa
116. Sagdid, i,e., the dog's gaze and the kinds of dog required for sagdid
117. Various precautions to be observed while carrying the corpse to the Dakhma: who, besides the nasa-salars, can carry the corpse, in case of necessity?
118. Precautions to be observed with regard to the corpses of persons dying unnatural death
119. Precautions to be observed if death occurs in a Yasna-gah
120. Death in an Atash Behram
121. Nasa on a high road or in a cultivated piece of land
122. Nasa coming in contact with a wooden couch, or a plastered piece of ground or a piece of land set with stones, or with felt-rugs, &c.
123. Death on the upper floor or a terrace; death by hanging; death on the ground-floor; death in a common passage leading to two rooms
124. On a davand throwing nasa the house of a Behdin, out of spite
125. Nasa coming in contact with a wooden structure
126. About the door or threshold of a house polluted with nasa and about horses or draught-animals coming in contact with nasa
127. One coming in contact with nasa should undergo Bareshnum purification
128. Death of a person seated upright
129. Death on a tree
130. How far does pollution go, if one amongst a multitude of men dies
131. Nasa lying in a heap of wood, or in corn, or in corn-fields, or in stalks, or straw
132. Bricks, earth, mortar, dung-fuel, and ashes, &c., coming in contact with nasa
133. Nasa in a jar of wines or of oil
134. Death occurring on the sea
135. How sagdid should be performed over a corpse buried underneath a debris of brick-bats or earth
136. Precautions to be observed by Behdins when juddins carry a corpse
137. Bones of men or animals found in the folds of garments
138. Spines of a hedgehog found in the dung of animals
139. Bareshnum purification to be undergone by one polluted with nasa
140. Difference between the nasa of a Behdin and of a darvand
141. About coming in contact with nasa in mown grass
142. About dead matter crushed with a stick
143. Keeping a lamp or light near a dead body at night, and the1 space of ground polluted by nasa
144. About food cooked in a house where death occurs
145. After how long does the ground of a covered place become pure after death
146. Temporary nasa-khana or, Zad-marg should be erected for the dead
147. When is pollution of nasa worse
148. The shroud (Kafan) for the dead
149. The legs of the dead should be bent, before taking them to the Dakhma
150. Precautions to be observed by the nasa-salars from the time when the dead body lies in the house up to the time when it is finally disposed of in the Dakhma
151. The gah-sarna (Yasht-i gahan)
152. Juddins cannot carry the biers of Zoroastrians to the Dakhma: precautions to be observed by the corpse-bearers
153. Consumption of a corpse by vultures
154. A person going in a funeral procession as well as those who have seen the corpse must, take a bath
155. Fresh meat should neither be cooked nor eaten for three days in a house where death occurs
156. Mourning for the dead prohibited
157. The form which the soul assumes for the first three days after death and the places frequented by it during that period
158. Tars-i Studan ceremony in honour of Srosh
159. How do the souls of the righteous and the wicked feel when the corpses are eaten away by vultures
160. What becomes of the five spiritual faculties of a man after death
161. The journey, to the Chinwad bridge of the souls of the righteous and the wicked
162. On the Srosh ceremony of the dead and the consecration of pure white garments with Darun
163. The dignity of Srosh Yazad
164. Ceremonies of the dead for the whole year
165. White garments (jama-i ashodad) consecrated in honour of the dead
166. Principal ceremonies of the dead for the first year
167. Sidab (rue) to be prepared with garlic on the third day's ceremony of the dead
168. Dahman Afrinagan to be recited on the dawn of the fourth day after death
169. If the three days' after the death of a person have not been performed owing to unavoidable circumstances, they should be performed thereafter
170. The souls of the pious come down here on their rojgar ceremonies
171. Ceremonies of one dying during five Gatha days
172. Invocation, in ceremonies, of a dead person whose name is unknown
173. Ceremonies on the death of a child aged one day up to seven years
174. Children dying aged one day up to 8 years will look like those aged 15 years, in the next world
175. Zinda-ravan ceremony can be performed for a boy or a girl 11 years and 3 months old, and not of one under that age
176. Dastur Noshervan Marzban's last testament: advice to his son as to what he should do after his father's death
177. Ceremonies to be performed for one year on the death of a person aged 15 years and upwards
     
     
178. [On the bringing up of children]
179. [On the duty of educating children]
180. [Submission to the authority of parents and teachers and abstaining from harassing them]
181. Which parent is created superior to the other -- the father or the mother
182. [Children should not neglect the duties towards their parents]
183. Disobedient children to be deprived of patrimony
184. Ritual prescribed for one who dies aged 12 years and under
185. On adoption -- its varieties
186. Proper age of betrothal and marriage
187. On the merit of contracting marriage
188. On negotiating marriage contract
189. Five kinds of marriage
190. The marriage ceremony, the dowry, and the announcement of the mahr, or, the marriage gift
191. The status of the five kinds of wives under different circumstances and the remarriage of widows
192. Patrimony to be divided among survivors
193. On divorce
194. Consorting with one's wife
195. Nocturnal pollution
196. On suckling a child
197. On adultery
198. On the hamemal sin, or, sin affecting the accusers
199. Obedience of wives to their husbands and of children to their parents
200. About menstruous women and the davazda-hamast ceremony performed for the expiation of sins committed by them
201. Treatment of women after childbirth and still-birth and about a woman who dies during her periods or pregnancy
202. About purifying the clothes of the carriers of the dead and those which have become riman (i.e., defiled) otherwise
203. On the purification of metals, stones, etc. which have become defiled
204. On cooking and drinking vessels
205. Pollution of wood
206. Trimming the hair and ceremonial disposal thereof
207. Nail paring
208. On swallowing a tooth unawares: on a sore mouth: on the soreness of any part of the body
209. Blood-letting
210. About a child biting another child
211. About burns and brands
212. About a child falling in water
213. On suckling a child (see p. 196)
214. About a child defiled by coming in contact with the dead
215. Kinds of animals regarded as nasa when dead
216. About Jam and Jame and different species of men and animals
217. The dog zarrin-gosh
218. About protecting a hedgehog and killing a tortoise
219. Story of Jam and Jame
220. Animals, birds, and fish which are fit to be eaten
221. On the lawful slaughter of cattle and fowl
222. Eating unconsecrated flesh of cattle is unlawful
223. Offering the fat of a gospand, lawfully slaughtered, to the fire of the Atash Behram on the fourth day after death
224. Domestic animals to be properly taken care of
225. On the domestic animals and the cock: the head of a domestic animal lawfully slaughtered can be consecrated
226. On wearing silken clothes and on the use of honey and opium
227. On drinking wine
228. On the consumption of ghee or clarified butter prepared by darvands
229. Fruits and vegetables sold by juddins
230. Hot water does not remove druj-i nasush
231. Hides tanned by juddins
232. On killing noxious creatures and on the eating of the flesh of a kharfastar
233. Food gnawed by noxious creatures
234. About the cattle which have eaten dead matter
235. Dead matter taken as medicine
236. How should Barashnom purification be administered to one of a foreign faith, who wished to be cleansed of the pollution by nasa
237. On peaceful and forcible conversion
238. On the treatment of juddins: their conversion
239. Diseases and their remedies
240. Amahraspands and Yazads to be propitiated, to avoid calamities and to ward off diseases
241. The blind and the maimed to be contented with their lot
242. On being grateful to God: Adarbad Marespand on gratefulness -- his miracles
243. How man brings on himself calamities: prevention is better than cure
244. Behdins on attaining to majority should do various good deeds, chiefly six; penalties prescribed for not doing them; enumeration of greater and less sins and margarjan crimes
245. Degrees of crimes and margarjan sins: sins which make one riman or margarjan
246. The merit of Kwedodas
247. On sodomy
248. On padyab (ablution) with gomez and water: story of Ibliis (Satan) and Tehmuras, illustrating the efficacy of bull's urine
249. Nirang to be recited on applying gomez
250. Different prayers to be recited during the five gahs: the duration of each gah
251. The Rapithwin gah: its celebration
252. The Afrinagan of Rapithwin -- when recited: the Afrinagan given in Avesta
253. Afrin-i Rapithwin (p. 303)
254. Recital of Niyayeshes (p. 304)
255. Number of Yatha [Ahunwar] to be recited in place of different Avestas
256. Khwarshed Niyayesh with translation
257. On the performance of Niyayesh in general
258. On the Mah Niyayesh
259. The waxing and waning of the moon (p. 305)
260. On seeing the new moon in different constellations every month
261. On recitation of Ohrmazd Yasht
262. On recitation of Srosh Yasht
263. Ohrmazd Yasht with translation from the beginning up to the 20 names of God
264. Nothing to be given to the wicked (p. 306)
265. Gifts to be given to the worthy and the good
266. [On charity] (p. 307)
267. [Delay is dangerous] (p. 308)
268. [Proper maintenance of Atash Behrams] (p. 310)
269. Baj to be recited before and after taking meals, and on eating meals with baj, i.e., by observing silence: the manner of cleansing the mouth after eating: meals not to be eaten by two persons together from the same plate: meals supplied by darwands, not to be taken: cleansing the mouth with hot water after meals and spitting it out on the ground is a sin -- the way in which the mouth and the teeth should be cleansed (p. 310)
270. On fasting
271. On the recital of Afrinagans (p. 313)
272. Dibache, or, Introduction of the Afrinagans
273. The last portion of the Dhup-nirang (or, nirang bui dadan)
274. Afrinagan of Ardafravash, as recited in Iran (to be recited with the karda of Tao ahmi nmane)
275. Afrinagan with the Khshnuman of Mihr
276. Afrinagan of Warharan Yazad
277. Afrinagan of Mino Ram (to be recited on occasions of joy, entertainments, and marriage)
278. Myazd ceremony to be performed five days in a month
279. Khshnuman of the Afrinagan of Rashnu Yazad
280. ... of Ashtad Yazad
281. ... of Anagran Yazad
282. ... of day Ohrmazd, month Frawardin
283. ... of Vanant Yazad
284. ... of day Hordad, month Frawardin
285. ... of day Tishtar, month Tishtar
286. ... of day Mihr, month Mihr
287. ... of day Aban, month Aban
288. ... of day Adar, month Adar
289. ... of day Frawardin, month Adar and of day Khwarshed, Month Dae
290. ... of day Vohuman, month Vohuman
291. ... of day Spandarmad, month Spandarman and of Haft Amahraspandan
292. ... of day Hordad, month Spandarmad
293. ... of Nonabar (for the first day)
294. ... of Nonabar (for the second day)
295. ... of Nonabar (for the third and fourth days)
296. Khshnuman of the Afrinagan recited on the erection of a new building
297. Khshnuman of the Afrinagan recited on a now well being dug.
298. Afrinagan Dahman, with Afrinami (with the Persian translation of Afrinami
299. Afrinagan of Gahambar
300. Afrinagan of Gathabyo
301. Afrinagan of Srosh
302. Afrinagan of Srosh recited for the first three days in the Aiwisruthrem gah in a house where death occurs and also on the second day of Nonabar
303. Afrinagan of Siruza (abbreviated)
304. Afrin-i Shash Gahambar (in Persian characters)
305. Afrin-i Gahambar Chashni (in Persian characters)
306. Afrin-i Myazd (in Avesta characters)
307. Afrin-i Zartosht (in Avesta with Persian translation)
308. Afrin-i Ardafravash (in Persian characters)
309. Afrin-i Buzorgan (in Persian characters)
310. Afrin-i Dahman (in Persian characters)
311. Doa-i Behram Varjavand, i.e., Chithrem Buyad, (Pazend in Avesta characters)
312. Doa-i Hoshedar [Ushedar] and Behram Varjavand, to be recited after prayers, especially the Niyayesh -- recited in Iran (in Persian characters)
313. Doa Nam-Setayashna (Pazand in Av. characters)
314. Nemaz-i Ohrmazd (Pazand in Av. characters)
315. Doa Nam-Setayashna (Pazand with Persian translation)
316. Marriage ceremony as performed in Iran (Paz. in Av. characters)
317. Doa-i Nekah, i.e., Tandarosti, as recited in Iran after the marriage ceremony (in Persian)
318. Paiman-i Pahlavi, or, Marriage ceremony, as performed India (in Persian characters)
319. Doa-i Nekah, i.e., Tandarosti
320. About Gahambars and the use of Sudab (rue), and Noshirvan Marzban's account of the Gahambars
321. Story of the Gahambar of Noshirvan, the just and Marzban Karsani
322. The Zand or Commentary on Afrinagan Gahambar (Paz. with Persian rendering)
323. The Yasna service as recited in the Gahambars, with the Khshnuman
324. The Yasna service of the five Fravardigan days the five Gatha days
325. Number of Barsom rods to be used in different Yasnas and the Khshnuman of Vendidad
326. The Paragna Ceremony, or, the Ceremony preparatory to the Yasna
327. Number of Yatha to be recited in different Yasnas
328. Barsom rods used in Yasna services
329. Barsom twigs of the gaz (i.e., of the tamarisk tree) only to be used in the service and not of any metal
330. 33 alats or apparatus, round about the Hawan
331. 15 hunar or capabilities of a herbad and the 5 virtues to be acquired by the faithful
332. Nirang is the life of Religion; -- who is a Dastur? -- the five nirangs to be learnt by herbads and the question asked of Adarbad by Husht
333. About acknowledging a Dastur and providing him with one-tenth of one's income
334. Rozgar of the departed relatives
335. Performance of the Darun ceremony
336. The souls of the departed visiting this earth
337. On Farvardegan days
338. Ceremonies of the dead and the Staomi (Y26)
339. The ritual of the Farvardegan days
340. Baj of 1200 Ashem and of 1200 Yatha
341. Darun to be consecrated in the Gatha days, with the Afrinagan of Panji
342. Darun-i Fravashi in the Panji
343. Khshnuman of the Darun of Mino Marespend
344. Rasmaha-i Behdinan (about Farvardigan days)
345. Khshnuman of the Darun of Ohrmazd roz
346. ... Vanant Yazad
347. Ritual of the Farvardegan days
348. Where to recite avanghao and staomi in the Darun consecration
349. Khshnuman of the Darun of day Hordad of the month Farvardin
350. The greatness of the day Hordad of the month Farvardin
351. Darun of Haft Amshaspand and its Khshnuman
352. Nirang of the 5th day of the 12th month (in Pahlavi) and the description of this day
353. The Hordad sal gah and its Khshnuman (6th day of the 12th month)
354. Khshnuman of the Darun ceremony of day Teshtar of month Teshtar
355. [An account of the Tiragan Jashan]
356. Khshnuman of the Darun of day Mihr, month Mihr
357. ... Aban, month Aban
358. ... Adar, month Adar
359. ... Vohuman, month Vohuman
360. ... of Srosh
361. Four Daruns consecrated for the dead on the dawn of the fourth day
362. Zinda-ravan ceremony with the four Darun ceremonies consecrated on the dawn of the fourth day
363. Khshnuman of the Darun-i Safar
364. One going on a journey of 12 farsangs must have darun consecrated in the manner of Warharan Yazad
365. Khshnuman of the Darun of Warharan Yazad
366. Khshnuman of the Darun consecrated with the head of a gospand
367. Khshnuman of the Darun consecrated with the head of fowl or bird
368. Khshnuman of the Darun of Rapithwin
369. Khshnuman of the Darun of Nonabar
370. Khshnuman of the Darun of Siruze
371. Khshnuman of the Darun of Shahin baj
372. How each day of the month is styled and mentioned in the Khshnumans
373. Khshnumans -- greater and smaller -- for each of the 30 days
374. How the days and months and the five Gatha days are mentioned in the Darun consecration
375. The manner of reciting the Yasna, etc.
376. [Ink prepared by darvands should not be used]
377. Ohrmazd and the Amahraspands
378. Loin-cloth should not be worn
379. Parts of the body to be covered while reciting Niyayesh
380. Priests should not eat the food cooked by Behdins (i.e., laymen), nor should they come in contact with them while eating
381. Pronunciation of the compound ao and of s in Spitama
382. Secrets should be written in Avesta or Pahlavi characters
383. Nirang av-padyav yashtan, i.e., consecration of Nirangdin (in Pazand)
384. The same -- twice (in Pazand)
385. How should one act in the nine nights' retreat, after undergoing the Barashnom purification
386. Administration of Barashnom to one who is not riman (polluted)
387. The Indian Parsis asked by their Persian confreres to go to Persia and learn there the technicalities of the ritual
388. Bagh-i Barashnom (i.e., the place where Barashnom is administered); -- how should it be prepared -- with a plan; the qualifications of a Yaozdathragar
389. The consecration of ab and padyab (i.e., water and gomez;) laying out the Barashnom gah, with a plan; administration of the Barashnom to an ordinary person, as well as a riman, etc.
390. Administration of the Barashnom to a riman with a plan of the Barashnom gah
391. Barashnom purification with the retreat of 9 nights; when is this retreat vitiated and when not; the order in which the different members of the body are washed and the manner of drinking gomez
392. About the purification of various things which are defiled
393. Zand or Commentary of Vendidad 9 (abbreviated): and about the Barashnomgar and Barashnom
394. The qualification of a Yaozdathragar
395. On the qualifications of a Yaozathragar and the merit of undergoing the Barashnom purification (composed in verse by Noshirvan Marzban)
396. Qualifications and reservations under which Herbadship, i.e., proper priestly duty should be preformed
397. sudre and Kusti should be in proper order, especially at the time of any consecration
398. Precautions to be observed when there is any bodily refuse within three steps of the ceremonial apparatus
399. Consecrations offered with or without zur
400. About the consecration of Fravashin
401. About the consecration of Vendidad
402. About the performance of Yasna
403. Merit of the performance of various ceremonials as well as of the Gahambars
404. Merit of performance of Vendidad, Yasna, Visperad, and Darun, with or without zur
405. Correct preparation of Darun and Farsast: Symbolism of the Darun
406. The erection of a Dar-i Mihr
407. Reward or retribution for the priest, for proper or improper consecration
408. About the garments worn by priests
409. Punishment of an unqualified Yaozdathragar
410. Four kinds of Yasnas offered to the Yazads
411. About the merit of Yasna and Myazd
412. Manner of reciting and consecrating Vendidad
413. A Yasna service which is virasta and gumani and drayan
414. The proper occasions when the formula avanghao and staomi are recited in the consecration of Vendidad: When is the Khub valid and when vitiated
415. The proper manner of consecrating Darun
416. About the varas (hair) of the sacred bull
417. Barsom twigs to be gathered from the pomegranate or the tamarisk only
418. About the hom sent to India from Iran and about the urvaram
419. The Navazud or Navar initiation
420. Can a Herbad who has gone into a Dakhma be again fit for Herbadship? (see II, p.9)
421. About the division of the dioceses (husht) by the Herbads and their emolument (nirmad)
422. The ceremony of Geti-Kharid or Navazud
423. On Zinda-ravan ceremony
424. Geneology of Zartosht
425. Zartosht and the future prophets
426. The Resurrection
427. The day Hordad of the month Farvardin
428. About 9000 years of existence
429. The faces of the soul
430. The spiritual parts in the body of men: their functions
431. The meaning of dreaming a dream
432. Division of the things of this world into 25 parts
433. Composition of men's body (from `Ulema-i Islam)
434. Mount Alburz
435. The signs of the Zodiac and lunar mansions
436. Seven demons: seven planets: seven heavens
437. Chekat Daiti and Chinwad Bridge
438. {The seven Keshvars}
439. The influence of the stars
440. [Hell]
441. Ten demons residing in men
442. The livelihood of the creatures of Ohrmazd and Ahriman
443. The righteous and the wicked
444. The blind, the deaf and the maimed should be content with their lot
445. Going on a journey without any safeguard
446. The Zand-Avesta
447. Behram Varjavand, the last apostle
448. The Immortals
449. Good and bad effects of drinking wine: About meritorious deeds
450. Yovad-shah, son of Agriras
451. A vow to be fulfilled on the birth of a male child
452. Parahom to be given to a newly born infant for drinking
453. Seven wonderful things invented by Jamshed
454. `Ulema-i Islam (first treatise)
455. `Ulema-i Islam (second treatise)
456. Vohuman Yasht
457. Jamaspi
458. Jamaspi, or Ahkam-i Jamasp (longer version)
459. Sadar Bundehesh
460. Yatha-ahu-vairyo, the foundation of Religion and 101 names of God, with longer commentaries
461. Letter brought by Behdin Bahman Suratya (Punjya) from Kerman
462. Another letter from Turkabad
463. Another letter from Kerman
464. Vasf-i Amshaspandan
465. Mar-nama and Burj-nama
466. Story of Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni
467. Story of an ignoble person who backbited the Behdins of Yazd
468. Some verses about Dastur Noshirwan Kermani
469. A year of famine and the dreams of a chaste woman with regard to it
470. Appearance of Mihr Yazad in a dream dreamt by Dastur Noshirwan
471. About the kindling of a lamp and its miracles
472. Story of Jam and Jame -- death of Jamshed
473. A tale of Afrasiab son of Pashang
474. Miracles of Zartosht with regard to the planting of the cypress tree
475. Some statements about religion
476. Story of Mazdak and Noshirwan
477. Noshirwan's enthronement; the marguzan (i.e., dakhma) of Noshirwan and the pilgrimage thereto of Abu Ja'far, the Khalif
478. The Prince of Iran and Omar Khuttab
479. Mino-Kherad (in Persian prose)
480. Iran-gaviz and its climate
481. Var Jamkart
482. Meaning of (l) Nemo-aongham, (2) atha-ima-vacho, (3) Airyama-ishyo, (4) az-hama gunah .... (5) Mazdayasno-ahmi, (6) ahmai raeshcha
483. Meaning of (1) Khshnaothra -- Ashem -- Fravarane -- Panj-gah i fravarane -- baj of Ohrmazd -- Yatha -- Yenghe-hatam and Yesnemcha
484. Some nirangs or incantations
485. Jamaspi (in verse)
486. Zartosht's prophetship -- his miracles and the establishment of Atash Behram
487. Some tales in verse, pointing a moral
488. Arda Viraf Nama
489. Qissa-i Sanjan
490. Nariman Hoshan's Rivayat, with some questions and answers and Chitak-i Avesta Gasan
491. Nariman Hoshang's Rivayat
492. The Rivayat of A. Y. 880 (extracts whereof are quoted in the classified compilation of Darab Hormazyar as belonging to Nariman Hoshang's Rivayat)
493. Rivayat brought by Faridun Marzban (see pp. 462-63)
494. Saddar Bundehesh (a part only)
495. Jamshed's palace at Pars
496. Youth and old age
497. Sage's conversation with Zartosht in the court of Gushtasp
498. On the worth of writers and the care of books
499. The four Persian dynasties
500. The third and the fourth fasl (in verse) -- about the destruction of the Persian empire
501. Dastur Barzu's Rivayat
502. Asfandyar Sohrab's Rivayat
503. Kaus Mahyar's Rivayat
504. Dastur Noshirwan's letter to Kamdin Padam
505. Letter brought by Kamdin Shapur
506. Shapur Bharuchi's Rivayat (see below)
507. Faridun Marzban's letter -- (see pp. 397-98).
508. Shapur Bharuchi's Rivayat
509. Letter to Dastur Rustam Peshotam and others about the new dakhma at Surat
510. Letter to the Adhyarus of Surat
511. [Introductory Epistle to Kama Bohra's Rivayat]
512. Maktub-i Maneck Changa]
513. [Some technical words, used in the Rivayat's, explained] ------------

NOTE:

Spelling of Zoroastrian technical terms has been normalized with other texts to facilitate searches:

• Dh: 'Afringan', here: 'Afrinagan'
• Dh: 'Aharman', this ed: 'Ahriman' (Dh also uses Ahriman in places)
• Dh: 'barashnum, bereshnum', this ed: 'barashnom'
• Dh: 'barsam', this ed: 'barsom' (Dh also uses 'barsom' in places)
• Dh: 'Behram', here: 'Warharan'
• Dh: 'Chinvat', here: 'Chinwad'
• Dh: 'div', here: 'dev'
• Dh: 'Khetyodath', here: 'kwedodas'
• Dh: Khorshed, here: Khwarshed
• Dh: 'Meher', here: 'Mihr'
• Dh: Nyaishes, here: Niyayeshes
• Dh: Ormazd, here: Ohrmazd
• Dh: 'Sarosh', here: 'Srosh'
• Dh: 'Zend', here: 'Zand'