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, 25.
25. In a number of nights equal to the number of months after conception, a woman is purified from an abortion.
26. The relatives of children that have died immediately after birth (before the cutting of the navel-string), and of still-born children, are purified at once.
27. (The relatives) of a child that has died before having teethed (are also purified) at once.
28. For him no ceremony with fire is performed, nor offering of water.
29. For a child that has teethed but has not yet been shorn, purity is obtained in one day and
night;
30. For a child that has been shorn but not initiated, in three nights ;
31. From that time forward (i. e. for initiated persons) in the time that has been mentioned above (in Sätra i seq.)
32. In regard to women, the marriage ceremony is (considered as their) initiation.
33. For married women there is no impurity for the relatives on the father's side.
34. If they happen to stay at their father's house during childbirth or if they die there, (their distant relatives are purified) in one night, and their parents (in three nights).
35. If, while the impurity caused by a birth lasts,
26. The meaning is, that the relatives of such children do not become impure.' (Nand.)
28. "The meaning is, that he must not be burnt.' (Nand.)
32. The import of this Satra is this, that the full period of impurity is ordained on the death of women also, in case they were married, as the marriage ceremony takes with them the place of the initiation of males.
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