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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LXX, 17.
DUTIES OF A HOUSEHOLDER.
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LXX. 1. He must not sleep with his feet wet; 2. Nor facing the north or the west; 3. Nor naked; 4. Nor on wet (fresh) bamboo; 5. Nor in the open air ; 6. Nor on a bedstead made of Palasa-wood; 7. Nor on one made of the wood of five trees;
8. Nor on one made of the wood of a tree which has been split by an elephant;
9. Nor on a bedstead made of the wood of a tree that has been kindled by lightning ;
10. Nor on a broken bedstead ; II. Nor on one made of scorched wood;
12. Nor on one made of the wood of a tree that used to be watered with a jar;.
13. Nor in a burial-ground, nor in an empty house, nor in a temple ;
14. Nor with people who are restless of limb; 15. Nor with women;
16. Nor on grain, nor (in a stable of) cows, nor (on the couch of any of his) Gurus, nor on the fireplace, nor (in a building dedicated to the) gods.
17. He must not sleep while the remnants of
LXX. 1. M. IV, 76. — 2. Y. I, 136. - 3. Âsv. III, 9, 6; M. IV, 75; Gaut. IX, 60. - 13. M. IV, 57. - 17. Sânkh. IV, 11, 17; Apast. I, 1, 2, 24; Gaut. II, 13.
7. Nand. mentions three explanations of this term: 1. a bedstead made of five pieces of wood (or of the wood of five trees); 2. a bedstead made of any of the five kinds of wood enumerated in the Vishnu-purâna; 3. a bedstead made of any of the five kinds of wood enumerated in Sätras 8-12. The second explanation is inadmissible, because part of the species of wood mentioned in the passage of the Vishnu-purâna referred to is identical with those enumerated in Sätras 8-12.
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