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FARGARD VI.
darkness, the offspring of darkness, which is Darkness' self. To that world, to the world of Hell, you are delivered by your own doings, by your own religion, O sinners ?!'
FARGARD VI.
I (1-9). How long the earth remains unclean, when defiled by the dead.
II (10–25). Penalties for defiling the ground with dead matter.
III (26–41). Purification of the different sorts of water, when defiled by the dead.
IV (42-43). Purification of the Haoma. V (44-51). The place for corpses ; the Dakhmas.
1. How long shall the piece of ground lie fallow whereon dogs or men have died ?
Ahura Mazda answered: 'A year long shall the piece of ground lie fallow whereon dogs or men have died, O holy Zarathustra!
2 (3). “A year long shall no worshipper of Mazda sow or water that piece of ground whereon dogs or men have died; he may sow as he likes the rest of the ground; he may water it as he likes 8.
3 (5). “If within the year they shall sow or water the piece of ground whereon dogs or men have died, they are guilty of the sin of “burying the dead”
The Commentary has, the place of those who impregnate darkness, for the Drug who conceives seed from the sinner comes from that place' (cf. Farg. XVIII, 30 seq.)
s Quotation from the Gathas (Yasna XXXI, 20). . Cf. Farg. VII, 45 seq.
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