Contents

pp vii-xii

INTRODUCTION

pp xiii-xxx

Abbreviations used in this volume

pp xxxi-xxxii

DÂDISTÂN-Î DÎNÎK

pp 1-2

1 - Introductory

pp 3-11

2 - Why a righteous man is better than all creatures, spiritual or worldly

pp 11-15

3 - Why a righteous man is created, and how he should act

pp 15-20

4 - Why a righteous man is great

pp 20-21

5 - How temporal distress is to be regarded

pp 22-23

6 - Why the good suffer more than the bad in this world

pp 23-25

7 - Why we are created, and what we ought to do

pp 25-26

8 - Whether good works done for the dead differ in effect from those ordered or done by themselves

pp 26-28

9 - How far they differ

pp 28-29

10 - The growth of good works during life

pp 29-30

11 - Whether the growth of a good work be as commendable as the original good work

pp 30-30

12 - Whether it eradicates sin equally well

pp 30-31

13 - Whether one is made responsible for all his sins and good works separately at the last account, or only for their balance

pp 31-32

14 - The angels who take account of sin and good works, and how sinners are punished

pp 32-34

15 - The exposure of a corpse does not occasion the final departure of life, and is meritorious

pp 34-36

16 - Whether the soul be aware of, or disturbed by, the corpse being gnawed

pp 36-38

17 - Reasons for the exposure of corpses

pp 38-42

18 - How the corpse and bones are to be disposed of

pp 43-44

19 - Whether departed souls can see Aûharmazd and Aharman

pp 44-45

20 - Where the souls of the righteous and wicked go

pp 46-47

21 - The Dâîtih peak, the Kinvad bridge, and the two paths of departed souls

pp 47-49

22 - Whether the spirits are distressed when a righteous man dies

pp 50-51

23 - How the life departs from the body

pp 51-53

24 - Where a righteous soul stays for the first three nights after death, and what it does next

pp 53-55

25 - Where a wicked soul stays for the first three nights after death, and what it does next

pp 55-56