CHAPTER 16.

0. In the name of God (yazdan) I write a paragraph (baba) where the sins which are as it were small are mentioned one by one. 1. The least sin is a Farman; and a Farman is three coins of five annas, some say three coins. 2. An Agerept is, as regards whatever weapon (snesh) men strike with in the world, whenever the weapon is taken in hand; and taken up by any one four finger-breaths from the ground it is the root of an Agerept for him; and the retribution and punishment for an Agerept should be fifty-three dirhams (jugan). 3. When the weapon turns downwards it is the root of an Avoirisht for him, and his sentence (dina) is to be changed; his retribution and punishment should be seventy-three dirhams, which is when anything further occurs.

4. When he shall lay the weapon on any one it is the root of an Aredush for him, and his retribution and punishment are thirty stirs; if the wound thereby made by him be one-fifth of a span (disht) it is no root of an Aredush for him, and his retribution and punishment are the same thirty stirs. 5. I write the degrees of sin: A Srosho-charanam is three coins and a half, a Farman is a Srosho-charanam, an Agerept is sixteen stirs, an Avoirisht is twenty-five stirs, an Aredush is thirty, a Khor is sixty, a Bazai is ninety, a Yat is a hundred, and eighty, and a Tanapuhr is three hundred.

6. The good works which are in the ceremonial worship of the sacred beings (yazishn-i yazdan): Consecrating a sacred cake (dron) is a good work of one Tanapuhr; a form of worship (yasht) is a hundred Tanapuhrs; a Visparad is a thousand Tanapuhrs; a Do-homast is ten thousand; a duwazdah homast (Dvazdah-homast) is a hundred thousand, and the merit (kirfak) of every one which is performed with holy-water is said to be a hundred to one; a Hadokht is two thousand Tanapuhrs, and with holy-water it becomes a hundred to one.