CHAPTER 7.

1. The morning sun it is necessary to reverence (yashtano) till midday, and that of midday it is necessary to reverence till the afternoon time, and that of the afternoon time it is necessary to reverence till night; whenever one is quite prepared for activity (khveshkarih), and shall then do reverence, it is proper. 2. And when anything of that happens which indicates when it is not proper to wash the hands, and about this he considers that when he does not reverence the sun it will stop, at the time previous to that in which it occurs the sun is to be fully reverenced by him, and, afterwards, when his hands are washed, it is to be reverenced again; and when he does not reverence it, except when innocent through not reverencing it, then it becomes irreverence (la yasht) of the sun for him.

3. As to the sun it is better when one reverences it every time at the proper period (pavan gas-i nafshman); when he does not reverence it for once it is a sin of thirty stirs. 4. Reverencing the sun is every time a good work of one Tanapuhr; and so of the moon and fire in like manner. 5. When on account of cloudiness the sun is not visible (pedak), and one shall reverence it, it is proper. 6. And while one does not reverence the sun, the good works which they do that day are not their own; some say that of the good works which they do within the law (dad) of the good religion he has no share.

7. While they do not wash dirty hands any good work which they do is not their own, for while one does not utterly destroy corruption (nasa) there is no coming of the angels to his body, and when there is no coming of the angels to his body he has no steadfastness in the religion, and when he has no steadfastness in the religion no good work whatever reaches unto him. 8. When one wishes to perform the propitiation (shnuman) of fire, it is allowable to perform one 'athro' by itself, and, when two and the 'mat vispaeibyo aterebyo,' these three are thus the propitiation everywhere; some say that it would be proper to perform it while allowable, except that of the heterodox.

9. Whoever shall extinguish a fire, by him ten fires are to be gathered together, by him ten punishments are to be endured, by him ten ants are to be destroyed, and by him holy-water (zohr) is to be presented to the sacred fire (Atash-i Warharan).