{"collection":"Zoroastrianism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/zor/sbe24/saddar.htm","path":"zor/sbe24/saddar.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/zor/sbe24/saddar.htm","text":"Translated by E. W. West, from Sacred Books of the East, volume 24, Clarendon Press, 1885.\n \"As its name implies the Sad Dar is a treatise on 'a hundred \n subjects' connected with the Zoroastrian religion. The word dar, literally 'door, \n or gate,' being also applied to the chapters of a book, and to the 'matters, \n or subjects,' of which it treats. This work is not a Pahlavi text, being written \n in Persian with an admixture of about four per cent of Arabic words; it is, \n however, more quoted than any other work by the Parsi compilers of the Persian \n Rivayats, or religious 'traditions,' in the seventeenth century. In one of its \n recensions it is also found written in Avesta characters, and the Avesta-Persian \n sentences alternate with an old Gujarati translation, in imitation of the Pazand-Sanskrit \n versions of Pahlavi texts compiled by Neryosang. In consideration of the existence \n of this pseudo-Pazand recension, together with the general acceptance of the \n work as an important authority, and its being a convenient summary of many of \n the religious customs handed down by Pahlavi writers, this work may be offered \n as a suitable appendix to the true Pahlavi texts, connecting them with the Persian \n writings that are too modern to be accepted as authorities in religious matters. \n It may ... be concluded that the prose Sad Dar had the reputation \n of being a very old work in the early part of the sixteenth century.\" (from \n introduction by E. W. West) \n \nChapter 0. Introduction\nChapter 1. Necessity of unwavering faith in the religion\nChapter 2. Sin not to be committed\nChapter 3. Advantage of perseverance in industry\nChapter 4. No one should despair of the mercy of Ohrmazd\nChapter 5. Advantage of Navazud and Geti-kharid\nChapter 6. The six indispensable good works\nChapter 7. Why we should recite certain formulas after sneezing\nChapter 8. Why high-priests must be obeyed\nChapter 9. The sin of unnatural intercourse to be punished, by any one, by death on the spot\nChapter 10. Reasons for wearing the sacred thread-girdle and tying it with four knots\nChapter 11. Why a household fire should be properly maintained\nChapter 12. Why the clothing of a corpse should be scanty and old, though many people must follow the bier.\nChapter 13. Why ceremonies in honour of the souls of the departed should be properly celebrated\nChapter 14. How nail-parings should be treated, and why\nChapter 15. How we should salute anything agreeable, and why\nChapter 16. A pregnant woman and new-born infant require the protection of a fire or burning lamp, with other precautions\nChapter 17. Why a toothpick must be cut free from bark\nChapter 18. People should marry early, to benefit by children's good works; and a childless man must have an adopted son\nChapter 19. Advantage of attending to agriculture\nChapter 20. Advantage of feeding the worthy\nChapter 21. How grace must be said before and after eating, and why\nChapter 22. Advantage of performing Jadangoi\nChapter 23. Tethered animals must be restrained\nChapter 24. Why and how Hom juice must be given to a new-born child\nChapter 25. Why promises must not be broken\nChapter 26. Every man of fifteen years must select a patron spirit and a priestly guide whom he must obey\nChapter 27. When it is doubtful whether an action be right or wrong a high-priest must be consulted\nChapter 28. Why the Avesta must be properly learnt and remembered\nChapter 29. Why liberality must extend only to the worthy\nChapter 30. Water must not be poured away, or drunk, in the dark\nChapter 31. Dogs must be fed and well-treated\nChapter 32. Why a hen or cock must not be killed for crowing\nChapter 33. Why search must be made where a corpse is supposed to be buried\nChapter 34. Animals must not be often killed, and some never; also certain parts should be consecrated\nChapter 35. Prayers to be used when washing the face\nChapter 36. Necessity of the Barashnom for both men and women\nChapter 37. Why the ten days of the guardian spirits [farohars] must be celebrated\nChapter 38. We must not drink from the same cup as those of a different religion, until it is purified\nChapter 39. The sacred fire and its attendant must be properly maintained (see Chap. 92)\nChapter 40. Parents and priests must be obeyed and not vexed\nChapter 41. The care and prayers necessary for menstruous women\nChapter 42. Why slander and seduction, sins producing accusers, are specially injurious\nChapter 43. Noxious creatures must be killed, especially five kinds\nChapter 44. Walking barefoot is a sin, and why\nChapter 45. How repentance must be accomplished for every sin\nChapter 46. The proper age for tying on the sacred thread-girdle (kusti)\nChapter 47. Ceremonies must be celebrated after the death of a child of seven, to liberate its soul from those of its parents\nChapter 48. A cooking-pot must not be more than two-thirds full, for fear of boiling over\nChapter 49. A fire must be cold before the ashes are removed\nChapter 50. How the morning ablutions must be performed\nChapter 51. Why it is necessary to send a child to school\nChapter 52. Why a sacred cake must be consecrated every year on the day Hordad of the month Farvardin\nChapter 53. Any one travelling twelve leagues must have a sacred cake consecrated before he goes and every Warharan day during his absence\nChapter 54. If a man's serving wife has a son, he may adopt it; but if only a daughter, he must adopt a relation's son\nChapter 55. When a sacred cake cannot be consecrated at a Navazud, bread must be eaten with the Ohrmazd Baj\nChapter 56. Precautions and prayers necessary when evacuating water\nChapter 57. A hedgehog must not be injured, and why\nChapter 58. Advantages of a ceremony for the living soul\nChapter 59. The only Niyayesh for women is obedience to their husbands\nChapter 60. Steadfastness in the religion leads to heaven, and helping others to be steadfast is the best good work\nChapter 61. Evils of falsehood\nChapter 62. Advantages of truth in word and action\nChapter 63. Regarding the sin of adultery\nChapter 64. Penalties for theft with and without violence\nChapter 65. Duties of thanksgiving and doing good\nChapter 66. All women must have the Dvazdah-homast celebrated\nChapter 67. Why women must abstain from adultery\nChapter 68. Precautions to be taken by menstruous women\nChapter 69. Allowing the sun to shine on a fire, even through holes, is sinful\nChapter 70. Precautions to be observed in carrying the dead\nChapter 71. Punishment for eating dead matter as medicine\nChapter 72. Bringing dead matter to water or fire is a deadly sin\nChapter 73. Any cow, goat, or fowl that eats dead matter is impure, and its produce cannot be used, for a year\nChapter 74. Morning ablutions\nChapter 75. Cultivators must be careful that irrigation water is not defiled with dead matter\nChapter 76. Period of purification after childbirth\nChapter 77. Purification and precautions after still-birth\nChapter 78. Why meat must not be eaten for three days after a death in the house\nChapter 79. Advantages of liberality\nChapter 80. Different values of Ashem-vohu on different occasions\nChapter 81. Ohrmazd admonishes Zartosht not to postpone to-day's duties and good works till tomorrow\nChapter 82. The sacred thread-girdle must be re-tied when dressing before moving from the spot\nChapter 83. Proper fasting is from sin, not from food\nChapter 84. Prayers before sleeping and when restless\nChapter 85. Advice must always be asked of the wise and relations\nChapter 86. Water-dogs must not be killed\nChapter 87. Ceremonies to be celebrated after a death\nChapter 88. Polluted wood must not be used or burnt\nChapter 89. Any one eating dead matter, or polluting another with it must be purified\nChapter 90. Nothing is to be given to a sinner\nChapter 91. How to purify articles of various materials when polluted by dead matter\nChapter 92. The sacred fire must be properly maintained, and attendant provided (see Chap. 39)\nChapter 93. Slander a sin, and how to atone for it\nChapter 94. Benefits must be reciprocated\nChapter 95. The merit of performing the Niyayeshes, and the sin of neglecting them.\nChapter 96. Mourning for the dead is improper\nChapter 97. Priests' instructions must be treated with respect\nChapter 98. Priests must teach the Avesta to laymen correctly\nChapter 99. Pahlavi must be taught to priests only\nChapter 100. Anyone molesting a harmless person in this world will be delayed on his way to the other world.","title":"Sad Dar: Contents","type":"page"}