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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FARGARD VIII.
113
“"Who is the victorious who will protect thy teaching ?” &c. 1
"" Keep us from our hater, O Mazda and Årmaiti Spenta ! Perish, O fiendish Drug! Perish, O brood of the fiend! Perish, O creation of the fiend ! Perish O world of the fiend ! Perish away, O Drug! Rush away, O Drug! Perish away, O Drug! Perish away to the regions of the north, never more to give unto death the living world of Righteousness ? !"']
VIII.
73 (229). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If worshippers of Mazda, walking, or running, or riding, or driving, come upon a Nasuburning fire, whereon Nasu is being burnt or cooked , what shall they do?
74 (233). Ahura Mazda answered: “They shall kill the man that cooks the Nasu ; surely they shall kill him". They shall take off the cauldron, they shall take off the tripod.
75 (237). “Then they shall kindle wood from that fire; either wood of those trees that have the seed of fire in them, or bundles of the very wood that was prepared for that fire; then they shall take it farther and disperse it, that it may die out the sooner 5.
As in $$ 19, 20. From the Vendîdåd Såda ; cf. § 21. : For food. Cf. Farg. VII, 23-24.
• He who burns Naså (dead matter) must be killed. Burning or cooking Naså from the dead is a capital crime.... Four men can be put to death by any one without an order from the Dastur: the Nasa-burner, the highwayman, the Sodomite, and the criminal taken in the deed' (Comm.)
• A new fire is kindled from the Nasu-burning fire: this new fire is disposed in such a way that it should die out soon: before it has died out, they kindle a new fire from it and so on for nine times : the ninth fire, derived from the one impure, through seven inter
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