Zend Avesta Part 01

SR No.: 007671
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Darmesteter
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1895
Total Pages: 2695
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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VENDIDAD.
V (21-26). On the excellence of purity and of the law that shows how to recover purity, when lost.
VI (27-38). On the defiling power of the Nasu being greater or less, according to the greater or less dignity of the being that dies.
VII (39–44). On the management of sacrificial implements defiled with Nasu.
VIII (45-62). On the treatment of a woman who has been delivered of a still-born child; and what is to be done with her clothes.
I a.
1. There dies a man in the depths of the vale: a bird takes flight from the top of the mountain down into the depths of the vale, and it feeds on the corpse of the dead man there: then, up it flies from the depths of the vale to the top of the mountain : it flies to some one of the trees there, of the hard-wooded or the soft-wooded, and upon that tree it vomits and deposits dung.
2 (7). Now, lo! here is a man coming up from the depths of the vale to the top of the mountain ; he comes to the tree whereon the bird is sitting ; from that tree he intends to take wood for the fire. He fells the tree, he hews the tree, he splits it into logs, and then he lights it in the fire, the son of Ahura Mazda. What is the penalty that he shall payi?
3(11). Ahura Mazda answered: “There is no sin upon a man for any Nasu that has been brought by dogs, by birds, by wolves, by winds, or by Aies.
4 (12). For were there sin upon a man for any Nasu that might have been brought by dogs, by
For defiling the fire by bringing dead matter into it (see Farg. VII, 25 seq.) contrarily to the rule, Put ye only proper and well-examined fuel (in the fire).' For the purification of unclean wood, see Farg. VII, 28 seq.
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