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ment of sinners and what is allowable or proper and what is not so.

18. Sakadum, fifty-two chapters. It treated of the ways of exercising authority; of sagacity, and resurrection.

19. Videvadada or Vendidad. Of all the twentyone “‘nusks” or books this is the only one that has come down to us entire. We will therefore speak of it at some length with the other books of the Avesta now extant.

20. Hadokht, thirty chapters. It treated of good actions and prayers and of the final fate or results of good and evil actions. Fragments of this book (about three chapters) have been preserved and are still in existence.

21. Stud Yasht (prayer of praise), thirty-three chapters. It treated of the praises of Ahura Mazda and His Ameshaspends and of thanksgivings to them.

Of all these twenty-one volumes which we have now described, the nineteenth, z.e. the Vendidad, is the only book that has come down to us intact. Together with the Yasna and Visparad, this book forms what is known as the Vendidad Sade. A few fragments only of the Hadokht and Vishtasp “nusks” exist.