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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VENDÎDÂD.
46 (123). Ahura Mazda answered : “When the corpse of a dead man has lain on the ground for a year, clothed with the light of heaven, and beholding the sun, then the ground is clean again, O holy Zarathustra '!'
47(124). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! How long after the corpse of a dead man has been buried in the earth, is the earth clean again?
48 (125). Ahura Mazda answered: When the corpse of a dead man has lain buried in the earth for fifty years , O Spitama Zarathustra ! then the earth is clean again 3.'
49 (126). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! How long after the corpse of a dead man has been laid down on a Dakhma; is the ground, whereon the Dakhma stands, clean again ?
50 (127). Ahura Mazda answered: Not until the dust of the corpse, O Spitama Zarathustra ! has mingled with the dust of the earth - Urge every one in the material world, O Spitama Zarathustra ! to pull down Dakhmas 6.
51 (129). · He who should pull down Dakhmas, even so much thereof as the size of his own body, his sins in thought, word, and deed are remitted as they would be by a Patet; his sins in thought, word, and deed are undone 6.
52 (132). 'Not for his soul shall the two spirits
See Farg. VI, i seq. • The time necessary to consume the corpse to its last particle. . Cf. Farg. III, 36 seq.
• A space of time estimated at fifty years (Comm.) Cf. Farg. III, 13.
Cf. Farg. III, 9, text and note, and § 13. o "A tanáræhr sin is remitted thereby' (Comm.)
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