Dînkard Book IX: Chapter XXXVI

Varstmânsar Nask. 1. The thirteenth fargard, Ustavaiti 4, is about the great reward of him who, through virtuous procedure, may occasion the benefit of a man 5 and of the religion of righteousness also. 2. This, too, that the maintenance of righteousness 6 is through the practice of it. 3. About the tokens of a righteous man—that is, the evidence of him—and his reverence for duty and good works; also his imperceptible perversion (kastârîh)—that is, not a single sin is manifest p. 270 in him—and he is an accomplisher of the stipulations of Vohûman 1, good thoughts, good words, and good deeds, and a comprisal of every goodness in the propitiation of the righteous. 4. About 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269:4 See Chap. XIII, 1 n. 269:5 See Pahl. Yas. XLII, 1 a. 269:6 Ibid. 1 d. 270:1 See Pahl. Yas. XLII, 2 d. 270:2 Another folio of B is here lost, containing the end of this chapter and the beginning of the next. The passage missing was equivalent to about 100 lines of this translation, of which perhaps three-fourths belonged to this chapter and one-fourth to the next.