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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Ahura Mazda answered: His reward shall be the same as if he had, here below, brought ten thousand fire-brands to the Dâityö-gâtu.'
82 (254). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If a man bring to the Daityô-gâtu the fire wherein impure liquid has been burnt', what shall be his reward when his soul has parted with his body?
Ahura Mazda answered : His reward shall be the same as if he had, here below, brought a thousand fire-brands to the Daityö-gåtu.
83 (257). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If a man bring to the Daityö-gâtu the fire wherein dung has been burnt ?, what shall be his reward when his soul has parted with his body ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘His reward shall be the same as if he had, here below, brought five hundred fire-brands to the Daityö-gåtu.
84 (258). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If a man bring to the Daityo-gâtu the fire from the kiln of a potter, what shall be his reward when his soul has parted with his body?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘His reward shall be the same as if he had, here below, brought four hundred fire-brands to the Daityö-gåtu.'
more it has been defiled by worldly uses, the greater is the merit acquired by freeing it from defilement.
The hê hr, that is to say all sort of impurity that comes from the body.
s. The fire of a bath,' according to Frâmjf; the use of the bath was prohibited ; according to Josuah the Stylite (ch. XX, tr. Martin), king Balash (484-488) was overthrown by the Magi for having built bath-houses. The reason of this prohibition was probably that it entailed the defilement of the fire, as they were warmed with cowdung.
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