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says that the book is translated into Arabic under the name of Najum, 2.e. star.

6. Pajak, twenty-two chapters. It treated of several questions about religious usages prevalent then and now. For example, what kinds of ‘ cheharpae,” z.e. quadrupeds, it is lawful to slaughter for food, especially for Gahambar feasts; what benefits accrue to those who perform these Gahambar ceremonies ; what Asodad (literally, “gifts to the pious”) in money and clothes must be given to the priests of different grades, viz. to the “ herbads,” “mobeds,” and “dasturs,” the last named being the priests of the highest rank; what kind of pious deeds should be done during the Fravardigan holy days, which fall at the end of a Parsi year.

7. Ratoshtaiti (sovereignty), fifty chapters, of which thirty-seven were burnt by Alexander the Great. It treated of miscellaneous subjects; of the orders and commandments of kings, ‘ dasturs,” leaders, governors, and pious persons; of the erection of new cities; of the geographical distribution of land and water on the surface of the earth.

8. Barish (direction), sixty chapters, of which forty-eight were burnt by Alexander. It dwelt upon the different ways of governing a country; also upon the orders which were to emanate from the kings as the temporal heads of the people, and those from the “ dasturs” as the spiritual heads.

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