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.
XXIII, 2.
2. All vessels made of iron (or of other metals or of composition metals such as bell-metal and the like), which are impure in the highest degree, become pure by exposure to the fire.
3. Things made of gems or stones or watershells, (such as conch-shells or mother-of-pearl, become pure) by digging them into the earth for seven days.
4. Things made of horns (of rhinoceroses or other animals), or of teeth (of elephants or other animals), or of bone (of tortoises or other animals, become pure) by planing them.
5. Vessels made of wood or earthenware must be thrown away.
6. Of a garment, which has been defiled in the highest degree, let him cut off that part which, having been washed, is changed in colour.
7. Objects made of gold, silver, water-shells, or gems, when they are only defiled by leavings of food and the like, and) not smeared (with greasy substances), are cleansed with water.
8. So are stone cups and vessels used at Somasacrifices (when not smeared).
15. M.V, 118, 119; Y. I, 184, 182. – 16. M. V, 122. – 17. M. V, 126; Y. I, 191. - 18. M.V, 118. — 19-22. M. V, 120; Y. I, 186, 187. – 25, 26. M. V, 114; Y. I, 190. — 27. M.V, 115; Y. I, 185; Apast. I, 5, 17, 12; Gaut. I, 29. - 28. Y. I, 185. - 30. M.V, 115; Y. I, 190. — 33. M. V, 122; Y. I, 187. — 38, 39. M.V, 125, 126. - 38. Y. I, 189.- 40. Y. I, 194. - 41. Y. I, 197. -47-52. M. V, 127-133. - 53-55. M.V, 141-143. — 53. Y. I, 195 ; Apast. I, 5, 16, 12; Gaut. I, 38, 41. — 55. Gaut. I, 28. —56, 57. M.V, 122, 124; Y. I, 188.
7. The defilement in the highest degree having been treated of in the six preceding Sûtras, he now goes on to discuss the various cases of lesser defilement. (Nand.)
8-11. Regarding the shape of the sacrificial implements men
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