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.
touched the corpse of a dog or the corpse of a man ?
36 (113). Ahura Mazda answered : 'He can, O holy Zarathustra !'
How so?
'If the Nasu has already been expelled by the corpse-eating dogs, or by the corpse-eating birds, he shall cleanse his body with gômêz and water, and he shall be clean?
37 (117). 'If the Nasu has not yet been expelled by the corpse-eating dogs, or by the corpse-eating birds, then the worshippers of Mazda shall dig three holes in the grounds, and he shall thereupon wash his body with gômêz, not with water. They shall then lift and bring my dog 4, they shall bring him (thus shall it be done and not otherwise) in front (of the man].
38 (121). «The worshippers of Mazda shall dig three other holes in the ground, and he shall thereupon wash his body with gômêz, not with water. They shall then lift and bring my dog, they shall bring him (thus shall it be done and not otherwise) in front [of the man]. Then shall they wait until he
* If the Sag-dîd has been performed, a simple ghosel is enough. Cf. Farg. VII, 29, notes 1 and 5.
* If the Sag-dîd has not been performed, the Barashnom is necessary.
The first three holes, which contain gômêz. For the disposition of the holes, see the following Fargard.
· Three times; every time that the unclean one passes from one hole to another (Comm. ad IX, 32).
6 To look at him, or, rather, at the Nasu in him, whilst the priest sings the spells that drive the Nasu.
• Containing gômêz too.
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