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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42 (129). Ahura Mazda answered: They shall wait for nine nights in winter, for a month in summer1, and then they shall bring back the fire to the house wherein the man has died.'
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43 (131). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! And if they shall bring back the fire to the house wherein the man has died, within the nine nights, or within the month, what penalty shall they pay?
44 (134). Ahura Mazda answered: 'They shall be Peshôtanus: two hundred stripes with the Aspahêastra, two hundred stripes with the Sraosho-karana.'
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45 (135). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If in the house of a worshipper of Mazda there be a woman with child, and if being a month gone, or two, or three, or four, or five, or six, or seven, or eight, or nine, or ten months gone3, she bring forth a still-born child, what shall the worshippers of Mazda do?
46 (139). Ahura Mazda answered: 'The place in that Mazdean house whereof the ground is the cleanest and the driest, and the least passed through by flocks and herds, by the fire of Ahura Mazda, by the consecrated bundles of Baresma, and by the faithful;'
47 (143). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! How far from the fire? How far from
1 Corruption being worse in summer.
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$45-54 Farg. VII, 60-69.
The pregnancy, without lasting more than nine calendar months (9 times 30 days), generally extends along ten months on the calendar (for instance from January 10 to October 10).
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