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.
LXVIII, 30.
30. Nor (must he eat at night) sour milk or ground barley.
31. Nor (must he eat) the leaves of the mountain ebony, or of the banyan, or of the holy fig-tree, or of the hemp plant.
32. (He must) not (eat) without having first given to eat (to the gods and to the Brâhmanas);
33. Nor without having made a burnt-offering first;
34. Nor without having sprinkled his feet;
35. Nor without having sprinkled his hands and his face ;
36. While having the remains of food on his mouth or hands, he must not take clarified butter.
37. Nor must he look at the moon, or at the sun, or at the stars (while unclean).
38. Nor must he touch his head (while unclean). 39. Nor must he recite the Veda (while unclean). 40. He must eat facing the east; 41. Or facing the south; 42. And after having honoured his food ? ;
43. And cheerfully, adorned with a garland of flowers, and anointed with unguents.
42. Nand, describes the ceremony of honouring one's food' as follows: 'He must first sprinkle the food, while reciting the Gâyatrî and the Vyâhritis (see LV, 10). Then he must sprinkle water all around it, with the Mantra, “ Forsooth, I sprinkle righteousness around thee." After that he must sip water with the Mantra, “Thou art an imperishable basis" (Taitt. Arany. X, 32, rendered according to Sâyana's Commentary), and offer up five oblations to Prâna, &c. (see Dr. Bühler's note on Apast. II, 1, 1, 2). Finally he must eat in silence, without blaming the food, and taking care to leave some remnant of it in the dish, and sip water again, with the Mantra, “ Thou art an imperishable covering "' (Taitt. Arany. X, 35, according to Sâyana).
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