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Excerpt from The Zoroastrian Sanitary Code
I have adopted as the groundwork of this Essay the translation of the Avesta text published by my late learned Avesta preceptor, Ervad Kavasji Edalji Kanga, but wherever I have thought it advisable to give preference to the version of the text given by a European scholar, I have mentioned his name or work in reference to it. Moreover, when I have not subscribed to the existing versions of the Avesta text, I have given my own version of the text rendered with the assistance of the existing versions and Ervad Kanga's Avesta Dictionary and Gram mar. The version given by me of the text is literal and the words put in parentheses are not expressed in the text, but are either explanatory or are added to complete the sense of the text. How far I have succeeded in this humble attempt, I leave it to the impartial judgment of the reader. I have tried my best to treat the various subjects of this Essay in a regular order, and to group under one heading all the facts affecting a particular subject stated here and there in the Avestaic literature.
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