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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XCV, 2.
HERMIT.
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fices, but (he must perform them) with (fruits, herbs, or roots) growing wild.
6. He must not relinquish the private recitation of the Veda.
7. He must preserve his chastity. 8. He must wear a dress made of skins or bark.
9. He must suffer the hairs of his head, of his beard, and of his body, and his nails to grow.
10. He must bathe at morning, noon, and evening.
II. He must either collect provisions, after the manner of the pigeon, for a month, or he must collect them for a year.
12. He who has collected provisions for a year, must throw away what he has collected on the day of full moon in the month Åsvina.
13. Or an hermit may bring food from a village, placing it in a dish made of leaves, or in a single leaf, or in his hand, or in a potsherd, and eat eight mouthfuls of it.
XCV. 1. An hermit must dry up his frame by the practice of austerities.
2. In summer he must expose himself to five fires.
6. The use of the particle ka implies, according to Nand., that the practice of distributing gifts should likewise be continued.
II. The particle va here refers, according to Nand., to a third alternative mentioned by Manu (VI, 18), that he should gather provisions sufficient for six months.
XCV. 1. M. VI, 24.-2-4. M. VI, 23; Y. III, 52.-5, 6. M. VI, 19; Y. III, 50. — 7-11. M. VI, 5, 21; Y. III, 46; Àpast. II, 9, 22, 2 ; Gaut. III, 26. — 12, 13. M. VI, 20; Y. III, 50. — 14, 15. M. VI, 17; Y. III, 49. — 16, 17. M. XI, 235, 239.
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