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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XC, 26.
PIOUS GIFTS.
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(to the manes), worships Vasudeva with sesamum, offers up (part of) the same in fire, gives to Brâhmanas of it, and eats (the remainder himself) he is purified from his sins.
20. (If) on the twelfth day of the dark half following on the full moon day of the month Mâgha, (the moon enters Sravana), he must keep a fast till the moon has entered that asterism, and place two lamps with two large wicks near (an image of ) Vasudeva ;
21. Placing on the right hand (of the image of Vasudeva, and kindling, a lamp) containing one hundred and eight Palas of clarified butter, with an entire piece of cloth (together with the fringes) dyed with saffron (as wick) in it;
22. (And placing) on its left, (and kindling, a lamp) containing one hundred and eight Palas of sesamum oil, with an entire piece of white cloth (as wick) in it.
23. He who has performed this rite obtains exquisite happiness, in whatever kingdom, in whatever province, and in whatever race he may be born again.
24. He who gives daily during the whole month Åsvina clarified butter to Brâhmanas, in order to please the two Asvins, obtains beauty.
25. He who feeds daily during that month (three) Brâhmanas with (milk and other) bovine productions, obtains a kingdom.
26. He who feeds on the Revati day of every month (three) Brâhmanas with rice boiled in milk
in later works; see Wilson loc. cit. The name of the latter is derived from the fact that it consists, precisely like the ceremony described in the present Sûtra, of six acts, in all of which Tila, i. e. sesamum-seeds, forms an essential ingredient.
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