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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XX, 45.
FUNERAL CEREMONIES.
the other), you must choose virtue for your only associate, O ye men.
39. Even were he to die with him, a kinsman is unable to follow his dead relative : all excepting his wife are forbidden to follow him on the path of Yama.
40. Virtue alone will follow him, wherever he may go; therefore do your duty unflinchingly in this wretched world.
41. To-morrow's business should be done to-day, and the afternoon's business in the forenoon; for death will not wait, whether a person has done it or not.
42. While his mind is fixed upon his field, or traffic, or his house, or while his thoughts are engrossed by some other (beloved) object, death suddenly carries him away as his prey, as a she-wolf catches a lamb.
43. Kala (time) is no one's friend and no one's enemy: when the effect of his acts in a former existence, by which his present existence is caused, has expired, he snatches a man away forcibly.
44. He will not die before his time has come, even though he has been pierced by a thousand shafts; he will not live after his time is out, even though he has only been touched by the point of a blade of Kusa grass.
45. Neither drugs, nor magical formulas, nor
39. This is an allusion to the custom of Sattee. (Nand.) See XXV, 14.
41. This proverb is found in the Mahâbhârata also (XII, 6536, &c.) See Böhtlingk, Ind. Sprüche, 6595.
43. This proverb is also found in the Mahâbhârata XI, 68, and Râmâyana IV, 18, 28, and other works. See Böhtlingk, 3194. 45. Neither will presents of gold (to Brâhmanas) or other such
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