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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VENDIDÂD.
eaten of the carcase of a dog, or of the corpse of a man?
77 (190). Ahura Mazda answered : 'She can, O holy Zarathustra! The priest shall not, within a year, take from her either milk or cheese for the libation, nor meat for the libation and the Baresma?. When a year has passed, then the faithful may eat of her as before ?'
XII.
78 (193). Who is he, O holy Ahura Mazda! who, meaning well and desiring righteousness, prevents righteousness? Who is he who, meaning well, falls into the ways of the Drug?
79 (194). Ahura Mazda answered: This one, meaning well and desiring righteousness, prevents righteousness; this one, meaning well, falls into the ways of the Drug, who offers up water defiled by the dead and unfit for libation; or who offers up in the dead of the night water unfit for libation.'
1 The libation waters (Zaothra) are mixed with milk (gîv). The cheese (or butter) and the meat are elements of the darûn as gôshô da.
2. Whatever comes from her, if dropped, is clean; if taken, unclean. If she be big with young, the young is born clean, if conceived before her eating of the corpse; if conceived afterwards, it is born unclean' (Comm.)
• Possibly, 'works for the Drug
• From what hour may sacrifice to the Good Waters be offered ? From sunrise to sunset. . . . He who offers up libations to the Good Waters after sunset, before sunrise, does no better deed than if he should throw them downright into the jaws of a venomous snake' (Nirangistân, $ 48).
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