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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VENDIDAD.
times, they shall wash it with water three times, and afterwards they shall expose it to the air for three months at the window of the house.
If it be woven cloth, they shall wash it with gômêz six times', they shall rub it with earth six times, they shall wash it with water six times, and afterwards they shall expose it to the air for six months at the window of the house.
16 (37). “The spring named Ardvi Sara, O Spitama Zarathustra! that spring of mine, purifies the seed of males, the womb of females, the milk of females?'
173 (41). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Can those clothes, when once washed and cleansed, ever be used either by a Zaotar, or by a Havanan, or by an Âtare-vakhsha, or by a Frabaretar, or by an Åbered, or by an Asnâtar, or by a Rathwiskar, or by a Sraoshå-varez, or by any priest, warrior, or husbandman?
18 (43). Ahura Mazda answered : 'Never can those clothes, even when washed and cleansed, be used either by a Zaotar, or by a Havanan, or by an Atare-vakhsha, or by a Frabaretar, or by an Åbered, or by an Åsnatar, or by a Rathwiskar, or by a Sraosha-varez, or by any priest, warrior, or husbandman.
19 (45). But if there be in a Mazdean house a woman who is in her sickness, or a man who has become unfit for work, and who must sit in the place of infirmity, those clothes shall serve for their coverings and for their sheets, until they can withdraw their hands for prayer.
20 (49). 'Ahura Mazda, indeed, does not allow us to waste anything of value that we may have, not even so
See Farg. XIX, 21. * This clause is a quotation from Yasna LXV, 5, intended to illustrate the cleansing power of water. Ardvî Sûra is the goddess of the waters. Cf. Farg. XXI, 6 notes.
s $$ 17-22 = Farg. V, 57-62.
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