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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VISHNU.
XXII, 7.
7. No one must eat the food of one impure (unless he be a Sapinda of his).
8. He who eats but once the food of Brâhmanas or others, while they are impure, will remain impure as long as they
9. When the (period of) impurity is over, he must perform a penance (as follows) :
10. If a twice-born man has eaten (the food) of a member of his own caste, while the latter was impure, he must approach a river and plunge into it, mutter the (hymn of) Aghamarshana 1 three times, and, after having emerged from the water, must mutter the Gâyatri 2 one thousand and eight times.
11. If a Brâhmana has eaten the food of a Kshatriya, while the latter was impure, he is purified by performing the same penance and by fasting (on the previous day).
12. (The same penance is ordained for) a Kshatriya who has eaten the food of a Vaisya, while the latter was impure.
13. (The same penance is ordained for) a Brâhmana (who has eaten the food) of an impure Vaisya; but he must fast besides during the three (previous) days.
14. If a Kshatriya or a Vaisya (have eaten the food) of a Brâhmana or a Kshatriya respectively, who were impure, they must approach a river and mutter the Gâyatri five hundred times.
15. A Vaisya, who has eaten the food of a Brâhmana, while the latter was impure, must (go to a river and) mutter the Gâyatri one hundred and eight times.
10. ?Rig-veda X, 190. —
Rig-veda III, 62, 10.
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