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 IX.
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41 (159). 'And the Drug Nasu rushes upon them even to the end of the nails, and they are unclean thenceforth for ever and ever.
It grieves the sun indeed, O Spitama Zarathustra ! to shine upon a man defiled by the dead ; it grieves the moon, it grieves the stars.
42 (162). That man delights them, O Spitama Zarathustra! who cleanses from the Nasu the man defiled by the dead; he delights the fire, he delights the water, he delights the earth, he delights the cow, he delights the trees, he delights the faithful, both men and women.'
43 (164). Zarathustra asked Ahura Mazda : 0 Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! What shall be his reward, after his soul has parted from his body, who has cleansed from the Nasu the man defiled by the dead ?'
44 (166). Ahura Mazda answered: “The welfare' of Paradise thou canst promise to that man, for his reward in the other world.'
45° (167). Zarathustra asked Ahura Mazda : 'O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! How shall I fight against that Drug who from the dead rushes upon the living? How shall I fight against that Nasu who from the dead defiles the living ?'
46 (169). Ahura Mazda answered: Say aloud those words in the Gathas that are to be said twice 3
· Literally, the grease.'
* This clause and the following one as far as 'and the Drug shall fly away' are further developed in the following Fargard.
• The Bis-âmrâta formulas, as enumerated in the following Fargard.
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