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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part of the house ?, lest her look should fall upon the fire.'
3 (9). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! How far from the fire ? How far from the water? How far from the consecrated bundles of Baresma? How far from the faithful ?
4 (10). Ahura Mazda answered: Fifteen paces from the fire, fifteen paces from the water, fifteen paces from the consecrated bundles of Baresma, three paces from the faithful.'
5 (11). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! How far from her shall he stay, who brings food to a woman who has the whites or sees the blood ?
6 (12). Ahura Mazda answered: Three paces 2 from her shall he stay, who brings food to a woman who has the whites or sees the blood.'
In what kind of vessels shall he bring her bread ? In what kind of vessels shall he bring her barleydrink?
'In vessels of brass, or of lead, or of any common metal!!!
7 (15). How much bread shall he bring to her ? How much barley-drink shall he bring ?
'Two danarest of dry bread, and one danare of liquor, lest she should get too weak”.
Nowadays a room on the ground floor is reserved for that use.
· The food is held out to her from a distance in a metal spoon.
• Earthen vessels, when defiled, cannot be made clean; but metal vessels can (see Farg. VII, 73 seq.)
• A danare is, according to Anquetil, as much as four tolas; a tola is from 105 to 175 grains.
o Sôshyös says : For three nights cooked meat is not allowed to her, lest the issue shall grow stronger.'
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