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nient of sinners and what is allowable or proper and
what is not so.

18. Sakadum, fifty-two chapters. It treated of
the ways of exercising authority; of sagacity, and
resurrection.

19. Videvadada or Vendidad. Of all the twenty-
one " misks" or books this is the only one that has
come clown to us entire. We will therefore speak of
it at some length with the other books of the Avesta
now extant.

20. Haclokht, thirty chapters. It treated of good
actions and prayers and of the final fate or results of
good and evil actions. Fragments of this book (about
three chapters) have been preserved and are still
in existence.

21. Stud Yasht (prayer of praise), thirty-three
chapters. It treated of the praises of Ahura Mazda
and His Ameshaspends and of thanksgivings to them.

Of all these^twenty-one volumes which we have now
described, the nineteenth, i.e. the Vendidad, is the
only book that has come down to us intact. Together
with the Yasna and Visparad, this book forms what
is known as the Vendidad Sade. A few fragments
only of the Haclokht and Vishtasp " nusks " exist.