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

Page 1567

XXII, 83.
IMPURITY.
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going to eat or to study, having drunk (water), having bathed, having spat, having put on his garment, having walked on the high road, having discharged urine or voided excrements, and having touched the bones no longer moist with fat of a five-toed animal, he must sip water;
76. Likewise, if he has talked to a Kandala or to a Mlekkha (barbarian).
77. If the lower part of his body, below the navel, or one of his fore-arms, has been defiled by one of the impure excretions of the body, or by one of the spirituous liquors or of the intoxicating drinks (hereafter mentioned), he is purified by cleansing the limb in question with earth and water.
78. If another part of his body (above the navel) has been defiled, (he becomes pure by cleansing it) with earth and water, and by bathing.
79. If his mouth has been defiled (he becomes pure) by fasting, bathing, and drinking Pañkagavya;
80. Likewise, if his lip has been defiled.
81. Adeps, semen, blood, dandruff, urine, fæces, earwax, nail-parings, phlegm, tears, rheum, and sweat are the twelve impure excretions of the body.
82. Distilled from sugar, or from the blossoms of the Madhuka (Madhvi wine ?), or from flour: these three kinds of spirituous liquor have to be discerned; as one, so are all : none of them must be tasted by the twice-born.
83. Again, distilled from the blossoms of the
76. Regarding the meaning of Mlekkha, see LXXXIV, 4.
82, 83. How the Madhvî, Mâdhûka, and Madhvîka wines differ from one another, does not become clear. Nand. explains the term Madhaka as denoting an extract from Madhûka blossoms (bassia latifolia), and Madhvi and Madhvîka as two different preparations from Madhu. Now Madhu might be rendered by honey;'
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