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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SHAYAST LÂ-SHAYAST.
water when standing on foot', that the measure it refers to applies to everything else, not even of a like origin; by him who makes water the Avesta ? for making water is to be uttered, and then it is the root of a Tanâpühar sin for him, and when he does not utter it he is more grievously sinful.
6. The rule is this, that to recite the Gathas over those passed away is not to be considered as beneficial, since it is not proper to recite the three Hâst which are the beginning of the Austavat Gâtha whenever one is on the road; whenever one recites them over a man in the house they are healing.
7. The rule is this, that in the night wine and aromatic herbs (sparam) and anything like food are not to be cast away towards the north quarter, because a fiend will become pregnant; and when one casts them away one Yatha-ahQ-vairyô 6 is to be uttered.
measure is here extended to washing water, hence the necessity of squatting during such ablutions.
1 This is a sin which is usually classed with 'running about uncovered' and walking with one boot' (see Chap. IV, 8, note).
• This Avesta is prescribed in Vend. XVIII, 97, and is still in constant use; it consists of three Ashem-vohûs (see Bund. XX, 2), two Humatanāms (Yas. XXXV, 4-6), three Hukhshathrôtemâis (Yas. XXXV, 13-15), four Ahunavars (see Bund. I, 21), and one Yênhê-hâtām (see B. Yt. II, 64).
· See Chap. I, 1, 2.
• The three chapters (Yas. XLII-XLIV) which begin the Ustavaiti Gâtha (Yas. XLII-XLV).
o A drug, or fiend, is usually considered as a female demon (see Vend. XVIII, 70–77); and the demons are supposed to come from the north, where they congregate on the summit of Aresûr, at the gates of hell (see Vend. XIX, 1, 140, 142, Bund. XII, 8).
• See Bund. I, 21. This statement is repeated in Chap. XII, 18.
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