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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SHẦYAST LÂ-SHAYAST.
him who has not performed the ritual Afarg said this degree is slighter; Médők-mah said both are alike, and he spoke further of this, since for him who has not performed the ritual, and does not attend to 8 saying its Itha and Ashem-voha, it is more severe than for him who has performed the ritual, and does not attend to consecrating its sacred cake (drôn). 6. Mêdôk-måh said that it (the ceremonial) & does not become Gêtô-kharid 4; Afarg said that it amounts to an offering (yastofrid) for every one, except for that person who knows the ritual by heart, and through sinfulness will not perform it, and it becomes his at the time when, during his life and by his command, it is recited with this intention, namely: 'I wish to do it, my faith (astóbânih) is in the religion.'
7. The deaf and dumb when it is not possible for him to say an Ashem does not commit unseasonable chatter?; and when it is possible for him to say an Ashem he shall three times say of it, 'Ashem, ashem, ashem;' and if it be possible for him to say
See Chap. I, 3. · Literally, 'believe or trust to.' • During which unseasonable chatter occurs.
• Generally written Geti-kharid (see Bund. XXX, 28); but, perhaps, we should here read yastófrid, "offering,' though gêtôkkharid occurs in Chap. XII, 30.
The MSS. have merely stofrid, which differs from the foregoing gêtô-kharid only in one Pahlavi letter, so we should probably read the same word in both cases, but which of them it ought to be is uncertain.
. Meaning, apparently, that he can obtain the benefit of any past ceremony, forfeited by wilful negligence, by repentance and a repetition of the ceremony during his lifetime.
? By omitting to say it (see 2). This clause of the sentence is omitted in K20.
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