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FARGARD XVIII.
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fire' the entrails 2 thereof together with Zaothralibations; he shall bring the shoulder bones to the Good Waters
71 (140). “He shall godly and piously bring unto the fire a thousand loads of soft wood, of Urvasna, Voha-gaona, Vohd-kereti, Hadha-naệpata, or of any sweet-scented plant.
72 (142). 'He shall tie and consecrate a thousand bundles of Baresma; he shall godly and piously offer up to the Good Waters a thousand Zaothra-libations, together with the Haoma and the milk, cleanly prepared and well strained, -cleanly prepared and well strained by a pious man, and mixed with the roots of the tree known as Hadhâ-naêpata e.
73 (144). 'He shall kill a thousand snakes of those that go upon the belly, two thousand of the other kind; he shall kill a thousand land-frogs and two thousand water-frogs; he shall kill a thousand corncarrying ants and two thousand of the other kind ?.
* To the Babrâm fire.
• The omentum (afsman) or epipleon. Catullus, describing the sacrifice of the Magi, has (LXXXIX):
. Accepto veneretur carmine divos
Omentum in flamma pingue liquefaciens.' Strabo XV, 13: Toù émiahou Ti mexpor ridéaos, os déyovoi ruves, ési ad trüp. Ascending six steps they showed me in a Room adjoining to the temple, their Fire which they fed with Wood, and sometimes Burn on it the Fat of the Sheep's Tail.' A Voyage Round the World, Dr. J. F. Gemelli, 1698.
· The ceremony here described is nearly fallen into desuetude: it is the so-called Zöhr-atash (zaothra for the fire), which is for the fire what the Zohr-ab is for the waters.
• This is the Zəhr-ab. According to the Shayast (XI, 4), when an animal is immolated, the heart is offered to the fire and the shoulder is offered to the waters.
• Cf. Farg. XIV, 3 seq. • Cf. Farg. XIV, 4, and p. 173, n. 4. Cf. Farg. XIV, 5.
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| SR No. | 007671 |
| Book Title | Zend Avesta Part 01 |
| 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 |