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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VENDIDÂD.
rushes upon the dead, from the regions of the north, in the shape of a raging fly, with knees and tail sticking out, droning without end, and like unto the foulest Khrafstras.'
II 1. 6 (7). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One ! If there be a number of men resting in the same place, on the same carpet, on the same pillows, be there two men near one another, or five, or fifty, or a hundred, close by one another; and of those people one happens to die; how many of them does the Drug Nasu envelope with corruption, infection, and pollution ?
7 (11). Ahura Mazda answered: 'If the dead one be a priest, the Drug Nasu rushes forth, O Spitama Zarathustral she goes as far as the eleventh and defiles the ten.
If the dead one be a warrior, the Drug Nasu rushes forth, O Spitama Zarathustral she goes as far as the tenth and defiles the nine.
If the dead one be a husbandman, the Drug Nasu rushes forth, O Spitama Zarathustra ! she goes as far as the ninth and defiles the eight.
8 (17). 'If it be a shepherd's dog, the Drug Nasu rushes forth, O Spitama Zarathustra ! she goes as far as the eighth and defiles the seven.
*If it be a house dog, the Drug Nasu rushes forth, O Spitama Zarathustral she goes as far as the seventh and defiles the six.
9 (21). 'If it be a Vohunazga dog, the Drug Nasu rushes forth, O Spitama Zarathustral she goes as far as the sixth and defiles the five.
'If it be a Tauruna dog, the Drug Nasu rushes forth, O Spitama Zarathustra ! she goes as far as the fifth and defiles the four?!
* $$ 6–9 = Farg. V, 27-30.
* This enumeration is less complete than that in the fifth Fargard, as it comprises only the first four sorts of dogs; the rest is to be supplied as in Farg. V, 31-38.
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