CHAPTER 1.

0. In the name of God (yazdan) and the good creation may there be the good health, long life, and abundant wealth of all the good and the right. doers specially for him whose writing I am. 1. As revealed by the Avesta, it is said in the Vendidad that these seven degrees (payak) of sin are mentioned in revelation, which are Farman, Agerept, Avoirisht, Aredush, Khor, Bazhai, Yat, and tanapuhr. 2. A Farman is the weight of four stirs, and each stir is four dirhams (jujan); of Agerept and Avoirisht that which is least is a scourging (tazhano), and the amount of them which was specially that which is most is said to be one dirham; an Aredush is thirty stirs; a Khor is sixty stirs; a Bazhai is ninety stirs; a Yat is a hundred and eighty stirs; and a Tanapuhr is three hundred stirs.

3. In the administration of the primitive faith there are some who have been of different opinions about it, for Gogoshasp spoke otherwise than the teaching (chashtak) of Ataro-Ohrmazd, and Soshyans otherwise than the teaching of Ataro-frobag Nosai, and Medok-mah otherwise than the teaching of Gogoshasp, and Afarg otherwise than the teaching of Soshyans. 4. And all those of the primitive faith rely upon these six teachings, and there are some who rely more weakly and some more strongly upon some of them.