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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XXIII, 1.
IMPURITY.
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(see XXIII, 40), and time (by the lapse of the ten days of impurity and the like) are purifiers of animate objects.
89. Of all pure things, pure food is pronounced the most excellent; for he who eats pure food only, is truly pure, not he who is only purified with earth and water.
90. By forgiveness of injuries the learned are purified ; by liberality, those who have done forbidden acts; by muttering of prayers, those who have sinned in secret; by religious austerities, those who best know the Veda.
91. By water and earth is purified what should be purified (because it has been defiled); a river is purified by its current (carrying away all slime and mud); a woman, whose thoughts have been impure, by her menses; and the chief among the twice-born (the Brâhmanas), by renouncing the world.
92. Bodies (when defiled) are purified by water ; the mind is purified (from evil thoughts) by truth; the soul (is purified or freed from worldly vanity) by sacred learning and austerities; the understanding (when unable to resolve some doubt), by knowledge.
93. Thus the directions for purifying animate bodies have been declared to thee; hear now the rules for cleaning all sorts of inanimate objects.
XXIII. 1. What has been defiled by the impure excretions of the body, by spirits, or by intoxicating drinks, is impure in the highest degree.
XXIII. 2. Âpast. I, 5, 17, 10; Gaut. I, 29. – 4. Y. I, 185; Gaut. I, 29, 31.-5. M.V, 123; Gaut. I, 34. - 7-11. M.V, III, 112, 116, 117; Y. I, 182, 183. – 7, 8. Gaut. I, 29, 30. — 13
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