Jamasp Namag 10 - Final Prognostications
Jamasp Namag, Chapter 10 Translated by E.W. West (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 5, 1880)
Chapter 10. On the Division of the Things of the World
By the Name of God.
What is it, that is said, that the things of the world are divided into twenty-five parts?
(Reply.) Five rest on luck, five on actions, five on disposition, five on nature, five on physical power. Life, and wife, and children, and sovereignty, and wealth rest on luck. Priestship, warriorship, husbandmanship, and righteousness (and) manners, on actions. To be effeminate, to leave off work, and to eat, and to wander (lit. go about), and to sleep, on disposition. Mercy, respect, and generosity (and) truth, and good thoughts, on nature. Body and beauty and understanding and light and strength, on physical power. Finished.
(Colophon)
Completed. I am the writer of Jamaspi, I a servant of the religion from the humblest to the dust-faced, I, Rânâ, son of Herbad Jesang, son of Herbad Dâdâ, son of Herbad Jesang, son of Herbad Mobad, son of Herbad Kayâmdin, son of Herbad Mobad, son of Herbad Kâmdin, son of Herbad Zartusht, son of Mobad Harmazdyâr, son of Herbad Râmyâr. I have written it from a copy of Herbad Karvâ (may he live long), son of Bikajiv of Broach, for the knowledge of new preceptors and for the increase of righteousness of the Behdins (i.e., the Zoroastrians). May there be health of body, long life, i.e., in this physical world, may they be righteous, (and) in the spiritual world may their souls attain paradise. Ruz Mihr, mah Ardwahisht, year eight hundred and seventy-three. In the Indian year Samvat 1560 Ruz Mihr, mah Ardwahisht, Parsi era 873.
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