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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FARGARD V.
carries off the cow?; whilst alive he smites the faithful man with a deadly blow, that parts the soul from the body?; not so will he do when dead.
38 (120). "Whilst alive, indeed, O Spitama Zarathustra ! such a wicked, two-legged ruffian as an ungodly Ashemaogha robs the faithful man of the full possession of his food, of his clothing, of his wood, of his bed, of his vessels s; not so will he do when dead.'
VII. 39 (122). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! When into our houses here below we have brought the fire, the Baresma, the cups, the Haoma, and the mortar 5, O holy Ahura Mazda ! if it come to pass that either a dog or a man dies there, what shall the worshippers of Mazda do ?
40 (125). Ahura Mazda answered : Out of the house, O Spitama Zarathustra ! shall they take the fire, the Baresma, the cups, the Haoma, and the mortar; they shall take the dead one out to the proper place 6 whereto, according to the law, corpses must be brought, to be devoured there.
41 (128). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! When shall they bring back the fire into the house wherein the man has died ?
As a cattle-lifter.
As an assassin. • By defiling them, he deprives the faithful of their use.
• When a wicked man dies, the Drug who was with him during his lifetime, seizes him and drags him down to Ahriman; therefore, his body, as the Drug is no longer with it, becomes pure. On the contrary, when it is a righteous man that dies, the Amshaspands take his soul to Ormazd and the Drug settles in the house of the body and makes it impure' (Gujastak Abalish). • In order to perform a sacrifice.
• The Dakhma.
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