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, 65.
is ordained, but he must mutter the Gayatrt) one hundred and eight times only.
65. If a Sadra has followed the corpse of a member of a twice-born caste, he must bathe.
66. Members of any caste, who have come near to the smoke of a funeral pile, must bathe.
67. (Bathing is also ordained) after sexual intercourse, bad dreams (of having been mounted upon an ass, or the like), when blood has issued from the throat, and after having vomited or been purged;
68. Also, after tonsure of the head; 69. And after having touched one who has touched a corpse (a carrier of a corpse), or a woman in her courses, or a Kândâla (or other low-caste persons, such as Svapakas), or a sacrificial post;
70. And (after having touched) the corpse of a five-toed animal, except of those kinds that may be eaten", or their bones still moist with fat.
71. In all such ablutions he must not wear his (defiled) apparel without having washed it before.
72. A woman in her courses becomes pure after four days by bathing.
73. A woman in her courses having touched another woman in her courses, who belongs to a lower caste than she does, must not eat again till she is purified.
74. If she has (unawares) touched a woman of her own caste, or of a higher caste than her own, she becomes pure at once, after having taken a bath.
75. Having sneezed, having slept, having eaten,
70. See LI, 6.
75. Nand. argues from a passage of Yâgñavalkya (I, 196) and from texts of Âpastamba (not found in his Dharma-sätra) and of Praketas, that the particle ka refers to repeated sipping of water.
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