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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VENDIDÂD.
33 (108). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If it be a weasel , how many of the creatures of the good spirit does it directly defile, how many does it indirectly defile ?
34 (110). Ahura Mazda answered : 'A weasel does neither directly nor indirectly defile any of the creatures of the good spirit, but him who smites and kills it; to him the uncleanness clings for ever and ever?'
35 (113) O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If the dead one be such a wicked, twofooted ruffian, as an ungodly Ashemaogha“, how many of the creatures of the good spirit does he directly defile, how many does he indirectly defile ?
36 (115). Ahura Mazda answered : 'No more than a frog does whose venom is dried up, and that has been dead more than a year. Whilst alive, indeed, O Spitama Zarathustra! such a wicked, twolegged ruffian as an ungodly Ashemaogha, directly defiles the creatures of the good spirit, and indirectly defiles them.
37 (119). Whilst alive he smites the water ® ; whilst alive he blows out the fire?; whilst alive he
A weasel. The weasel is one of the creatures of Ahura, for .it has been created to fight against the serpent garza and the other khrafstras that live in holes' (Bund. XIX, 27).
* Not that the unclean one cannot be cleansed, but that his uncleanness does not pass from him to another.
* $$ 35-38; cf. Farg. XII, 21-24. • Ashemaogha, a heretic.
o The frog is a creature of Ahriman's, and one of the most hateful. Cf. Farg. XIV, 5.
. By defiling it (a capital crime; see Farg. VII, 25).
? He extinguishes the Bahrâm fire (a capital crime ; cf. Farg. VII, 25).
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