Chapter XXIV

Pahlavi Texts, Part III (SBE24), E.W. West, tr. [1885], at sacred-texts.com

CHAPTER XXIV.

1. The twenty-fourth subject is this, that when an infant is born from its mother it is necessary that they give it the consecrated Hôm-juice ², on this account, that understanding (’haql), wisdom, and

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knowledge may more abundantly get to it, and the want (ablat) of them may come more scantily upon it ¹.

2. If, at that time, they do not perform the consecration, they should take forth a little Hôm for it ², and recite ³ a Yathâ-ahû-vairyô ⁴, and put a trifle of water into it, and make Hôm-juice of that, and give it to the infant, and afterwards ⁵ milk.

Footnotes

286:2 See Mkh. LVII, 28 n, Sls. X, 16.

287:1 B29 omits these eleven words.

287:2 B29 adds 'in the Hôm-mortar.'

287:3 B29 adds 'and utter.'

287:4 See Mkh. XXVII, 70 n.

287:5 Lp, B29 insert 'they are to give.'