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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96
VISHNU.
XXII, 84.
Madhuka tree (Mâdhaka wine), from molasses, from the fruits of the Tanka (or Kapittha tree), of the jujube tree, of the Khargāra tree, or of the breadfruit tree, from wine-grapes, from Madhaka blossoms (Mâdhvika wine), Maireya, and the sap of the cocoanut tree :
84. These ten intoxicating drinks are unclean for a Brâhmana ; but a Kshatriya and a Vaisya 'commit no wrong in touching (or drinking) them.
85. A pupil having performed on failure of other mourners) the funeral of his dead Guru, becomes pure after ten nights, like those (kinsmen) who carry out the dead.
86. A student does not infringe the rules of his order by carrying out, when dead, his teacher, or his sub-teacher, or his father, or his mother, or his Guru.
87. A student must not offer a libation of water to a deceased relative (excepting his parents) till the term of his studentship has expired; but if, after its expiration, he offers a libation of water, he becomes pure after three nights.
88. Sacred knowledge (see 92), religious austerities (see 90), fire (see XXIII, 33), holy food (Pañkagavya), earth (see 91), the mind, water (see 91), smearing (with cow-dung and the like, see XXIII, 56), air (see XXIII, 41), (the morning and evening prayers and other) religious acts, the sun
but Kullaka, in his comment on the term Madhvî (M. XI, 95), states expressly that it means Madhuka blossom,' and Hârîta (as quoted by Nand.) says that Mâdhûka, Madhvi and Madhvîka are all preparations from Madhu, i.e. Madhûka blossoms. Maireya, according to the lexicographer Vâkaspati, as quoted by Nand., is an intoxicating drink prepared from the flowers of the grislea tormentosa, mixed with sugar, grain, and water, or, according to the reading of the Sabdakalpadruma (see the Petersburg Dictionary), with sorrel.
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