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•The worshippers of Mazda may afterwards prepare meals with meat and wine in that house; it shall be clean, and there will be no sin, as before.'
IV. 23 (65). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If a man shall throw clothes, either of skin or woven, upon a dead body?, enough to cover the feet, what is the penalty that he shall pay : ?
Ahura Mazda answered : 'Four hundred stripes with the Aspahê-astra, four hundred stripes with the Sraoshô-karana.'
24 (68). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If a man shall throw clothes, either of skin or woven, upon a dead body, enough to cover both legs, what is the penalty that he shall
pay?
Ahura Mazda answered: 'Six hundred stripes with the Aspahê-astra, six hundred stripes with the Sraoshô-karana.'
25 (71). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If a man shall throw clothes, either of skin or woven, upon a dead body, enough to cover the whole body, what is the penalty that he shall
pay?
Ahura Mazda answered: 'A thousand stripes
1 'On the fourth day. For three days and nights after the death it is forbidden to cook meat in the house (Comm.)
* The dead must be stripped of his clothes and is exposed on the heights 'clothed with the light of heaven' (Farg. VI, 51).- The modern use is to have him wrapped in a shroud as old and as much worn out as possible (Farg. V, 61).
* See Farg. V, 60; VII, 20.
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