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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LX, 18.
DUTIES OF A HOUSEHOLDER.
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the hour sacred to Brahman, let him rise and void his excrements.
2. By night (let him void them) facing the south, by day and during either twilight (let him void them) facing the north.
3. (He must) not (void them) on earth which has not been previously covered (with grass and the like);
4. Nor on a ploughed field;
5. Nor in the shade of a tree (fit to be used for sacrifices);
6. Nor on barren soil ; 7. Nor on a spot abounding in fresh grass ; 8. Nor where there are worms or insects; 9. Nor in a ditch (or hole, or upon the roots of a tree); 10. Nor on an ant-hill; 11. Nor on a path ; 12. Nor on a public road; 13. Nor in a place previously defiled by another person ; 14. Nor in a garden; 15. Nor in the vicinity of a garden or of a reservoir of) water; 16. Nor on ashes ; 17. Nor on coal; 18. Nor on
I, 11, 31, 1; Gaut. IX, 41-43. – 3. M. IV, 49; Âpast. I, 11, 30, 15; Gaut. IX, 38. — 4. M. IV, 46; Âpast. I, 11, 30, 18. - 5. Âpast. loc. cit. 16; Gaut. IX, 40. - 8-10. M. IV, 46, 47.-II, 12. M. IV, 45; Âpast. loc. cit. 18; Gaut. IX, 40. — 11, 19. Y. I, 134. — 15, 21. M. IV, 46, 56 ; Y. I, 134, 137; Âpast. loc. cit. 18. — 16, 18. M. IV, 45; Gaut. IX, 40. — 22. M. IV, 48; Y. I, 134; Apast. 20. - 23-26. M. IV, 49; V, 136, 137. — 23. Apast. 15; Gaut. IX, 37.- 24. Y. I, 17. Chapters LX-LXIV treat of the daily duties of a householder. (Nand.)
6. Nand. infers from the use of the particle ka, that the following places (mentioned by Manu IV, 46, according to Nand.'s reading, which differs from the traditional one) are also included in this prohibition: a river, a mountain, the ruins of a temple, and the top of a mountain.
17. Nand. infers from the use of the particle ka, and from a text of Yama, that chaff and potsherds are also intended here.
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