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.
XCIII, 13.
13. One who gains his subsistence by wearing (a lock on the crown of the head or other) distinguishing marks of a caste or religious order, to which he does not belong, takes upon himself the (consequences of the) sins committed by those who have a right to those marks, and enters in a future birth the womb of an animal.
14. He must not give (to a panegyrist) from vain-glory, or from fear, or to a friend (from whom he hopes to obtain benefit), nor (must he bestow gifts), with a view to acquire religious merit, upon dancers or singers: that is a fixed rule.
XCIV. 1. A householder, when he sees his skin has become wrinkled and his hair turned grey, must go to live in a forest.
2. Or (he must do so) when he sees the son of his son.
3. Let him (before going into the forest) entrust the care of his wife to his sons, or let her accompany him.
4. Let him keep the sacred fires in his new abode as before.
5. He must not omit to perform the five sacri
XCIV. 1. 2. M. VI. 2.-3. 4. M. VI. 3. 4: Y. III. 45 : Âpast. II, 9, 22, 8, 9. — 5. M. VI, 5, 16; Y. III, 46; Gaut. III, 29. — 6. M. VI, 8; Y. III, 48. – 7. M. VI, 26; Y. III, 45; Âpast. II, 9, 21, 19. — 8. M. VI, 6; Âpast. II, 9, 22, 1; Gaut. VI, 34. — 9, 10. M. VI, 6; Y. HII, 46, 48.-9, II. Gaut. III, 34, 35. — II. M. VI, 18; Y. III, 47.-12. M. VI, 15; Y. III, 47; Apast. II, 9, 22, 24. — 13. M. VI, 28; Y. III, 55. "The duties of a householder having been declared, he now goes on to expound the duties of an hermit.' (Nand.)
5. See LIX, 20 seq.
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