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, 61.
61. In the urine of cows dwells the Ganges, prosperity (dwells) in the dust (rising from their couch), good fortune in cow-dung, and virtue in saluting them. Therefore should they be constantly saluted.
XXIV. 1. Now a Brâhmana may take four wives in the direct order of the (four) castes;
2. A Kshatriya, three; 3. A Vaisya, two; 4. A Sadra, one only.
5. Among these (wives), if a man marries one of his own caste, their hands shall be joined.
6. In marriages with women of a different class, a Kshatriya bride must hold an arrow in her hand;
7. A Vaisya bride, a whip; 8. A Sûdra bride, the skirt of a mantle.
9. No one should marry a woman belonging to the same Gotra, or descended from the same Rishi ancestors, or from the same Pravaras.
XXIV. 1-4. Weber, Ind. Stud. X, 21, 74; M. III, 12-14; Y. I, 56, 57. – 5. M. III, 43; Y. I, 62. - 6-8. M. III, 44 ; Y. I, 62. -9, 10. Weber loc. cit. 75; M. III, 5; Y. I, 53 ; Apast. II, 5, II, 15, 16; Gaut. IV, 2-5. - 12–16. M. III, 8. – 12. Y. I, 53. — 17-26. M. III, 20, 21, 27-34; Y. I, 58-61; Apast. II, 5, 11, 17II, 5, 12, 2; Gaut. IV, 6-13. -- 27, 28. M.III, 23-26, 39; Apast. II, 5, 12, 3; Gaut. IV, 14, 15. — 29-32. M. III, 37, 38; Y. I, 58-60; Gaut. IV, 30-33. — 38. M. V, 151; Y. I, 63. — 39. Y. I, 63. – 40. M. IX, 90; Y. I, 64. — 41. M. IX, 93.
1. This chapter opens the section on Samskaras or sacraments, i. e. the ceremonies on conception and so forth. (Nand.) This section forms the second part of the division treating of Akâra. See above, XIX.
9. According to Nand., the term Gotra refers to descent from one of the seven Rishis, or from Agastya as the eighth; the term Arsha (Rishi ancestors), to descent from the Arshtishenas or Mudgalas,
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