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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XXII, 43.
IMPURITY.
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another impurity caused by childbirth intervenes, it ends when the former impurity terminates.
36. If it intervenes when one night (only of the period of impurity remains, the fresh impurity terminates) two days later.
37. If it intervenes when one watch (only of the last night remains, the impurity ends) three days later.
38. The same rule is observed if a relative dies during a period of impurity caused by the death (of another relative).
39. If a man, while staying in another country, hears of the birth or death (of a relative), he becomes purified after the lapse of the period still wanting (to the ten days). · 40. If the period of impurity, but not a whole year, has elapsed, (he is purified in one night.)
41. After that time (he is purified) by a bath.
42. If his teacher or maternal grandfather has died, (he is purified) in three nights.
43. Likewise, if sons other than a son of the body have been born or have died, and if wives who had another husband before have been delivered of a child or have died.
40. Although the general term impurity is used in this Satra, it refers to impurity caused by a death only.' (Nand.)
42. “The use of the particle ka implies, that this rule extends to the death of a maternal grandmother, as ordained in the Shadasîtismriti.' (Nand.)
43. The twelve kinds of sons have been enumerated above, XV, 2-27. Of these, the three species of adopted sons, the son bought, and the son cast off cannot cause impurity, because their sonship dates from a period subsequent to their birth; but their offspring may cause impurity. (Nand.) Parapûrvâs, or wives who had another husband before,' are either of the punarbhd or of the svairinî kind. (Nand.) See XV, 8, 9, and Närada XII, 46-54.
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