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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LXXIX, 16.
SRÂDDHAS.
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6. He may give white and sweet-smelling flowers, even though grown on thorny plants, and aquatic flowers, even though they be red.
7. He must not give marrow or fat instead of a lamp.
8. He may give clarified butter or sesamum-oil.
9. He must not give (the nails or horns) of animals instead of the incense of all kinds (prescribed for a Sraddha).
10. He may give bdellium mixed up with honey and clarified butter.
11. He may give sandal, saffron, camphor, aloe wood, or Padmaka wood instead of 'an ointment.
12. He must not salt (the dishes) publicly (after they have been cooked).
13. He must not give clarified butter, condiments, or the like (i. e. sour milk, milk, &c.) with his hands.
14. He must use metallic vessels; 15. Especially vessels made of silver.
16. He must place (on the sacrificial ground) vessels made of the horn of the rhinoceros, blankets made of the hair of the mountain-goat, the skin of a black antelope, sesamum, white mustard, unbroken grains, (silver and copper vessels and other) purificatory objects, and (a goat and other animals or objects), by which the demons are kept aloof.
7. 'Or mustard-oil or any other such substance, as ka indicates.' (Nand.)
8. Or the juice of plants, as mentioned by Sankha, on account of vâ.' (Nand.)
13. He must give those liquids with a spoon or similar implement. (Nand.)
16. According to Nand., the particle ka refers to other purificatory things, viz. the following seven, milk, water from the Ganges, honey, silken cloth, a grandson, blankets made of the hair of the
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