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.
LXXVIII, 50.
50. For Sraddhas for those who have been killed in battle the fourteenth day is ordained.
51. There are two stanzas on this subject recited by the manes :
52. 'May that excellent man be born to our race, whosoever he may be, who attentively offers a Sraddha in the rainy season on the thirteenth of the dark half,
53. With milk profusely mixed with honey; and (he who offers such Sraddhas) during the whole month Kârttika and in the afternoon) when the shadow of an elephant falls towards the east.'
LXXIX. 1. He must not perform a Sraddha with water collected at night.
2. On failure of Kusa grass he must employ Kâsa or Darvâ grass instead.
3. Instead of a garment (he may give) cotton thread.
4. He must avoid (giving) the fringe of cloth, though it be of cloth not yet used.
5. And he must not give) flowers having a nasty odour, or no odour at all, the blossoms of thorny plants, and red flowers.
52. The term prâvrikâle, in the rainy season,' probably refers to one month only of the rainy season, the month Bhadrapada or Praushthapada. See above, LXXVI, 1, and M. III, 273, 274, with Kullûka's Commentary ; Y. I, 260, with Vigñânesvara's Comment.
LXXIX. 8, 16. M. III, 226, 227, 235, 257; Âpast. II, 8, 19, 19-22. - 19-21. M. III, 229.
5. The use of the particle ka implies, according to Nand., who quotes a text in support of his assertion, that the leaves of the Kadamba, Bèl, Ketaka, and Bakula trees, as well as those of the Barbara plant and of the thorn-apple tree, are also included in this prohibition.
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