Dk. VIII, Chap. XXII, [2], probably refers to the passage which contained the statement thus quoted in Sls. X, 13:—‘It is revealed in the Ganabâ-sar-nigêd, where a day in the year is indicated, that the _sacred thread-_girdle of every one who shall be one day more than fourteen years and three months old [^3] is to be tied on—it is better so than when he remains unto fifteen years, and then ties on the girdle—who is more cared for, that way, than those of five (or nine) months in the womb of the mother, on whom they should put it.’
(476:1) The very long account of this Nask, in Dk. VIII, contains 2,179 Pahlavi words, from which the extent of its original text may be estimated (in the same way as in the case of Nask XVII) at about 28,000 Avesta and 251,500 Pahlavi words. ↩︎
(476:2) So as to include the nine months’ existence, before birth, in the prescribed fifteen years. ↩︎