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, 37.
IMPURITY.
IOI
31. Lumps of sugar and other preparations from the sugar-canel, stored up in large quantities (exceeding a Drona) and kept in one's own house ?, by water and fire 3;
32. All sorts of salt, in the same manner;
33. Earthern vessels (if smeared with excrements and the like), by a second burning;
34. Images of gods (if smeared), by cleansing them in the same way as the material (of which they are made is generally cleansed), and then installing them anew (in their former place).
35. Of undressed grain let him remove so much only as has been defiled, and the remainder let him pound in a mortar and wash.
36. A quantity of prepared grain not exceeding a Drona is not spoiled by being defiled (by dogs, crows, and other unclean animals).
37. He must throw away thus much of it only as has been defiled, and must sprinkle over the remainder water, into which a piece of gold has been dropped, and over which the Gâyatri has been pronounced, and must hold it up before a goat (or before a horse) and before the fire.
31. Such as raw sugar, candied sugar, &c. — ? If there is no large quantity of them, they require to be sprinkled with water only; and if they are kept elsewhere than in the house, as if they are exposed for sale in a fair, they require no purification at all. - * They must be encircled with fire, and sprinkled with water afterwards. (Nand.)
32. Nand. mentions as the main species of salt, rock-salt, seasalt, sochal-salt, and Sâmbhala-salt. The last term refers perhaps to salt coming from the famous salt-lake of Sâkambharî or Shambar in Râgputana.
37. 'A quantity less than a Drona having been defiled must be thrown away, as stated by Parâsara.' (Nand.) One Drona=4 Ādhakas = 1024 Mushtis or handfuls. The meaning of Adhaka,
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