Text of Confucianism Part 02

SR No.: 007676
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Legge
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1882
Total Pages: 2405
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 43 MB

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DÂDISTÂN-Ê DÎNÍK.
and other religious and ritualistic defence, feeding on milk and eating with a spoon' are ordered, because--as the sacred ceremony, the defence and protection of the worldly existences, is, by order of the creator, the business of Srôsh the righteous ?, and he is also one of those taking the account in the three nights 3–Srôsh the righteous gives the soul, for three days and nights, the place of the spirit of air in the world, and protection. 6. And because of the protectiveness of Srôsh, and that one is assisted likewise by Srôsh's taking the account, and for that purpose, are the manifest reasons for performing and ordering the ceremony of Srôsh for three days and nights 4.
7. And the fourth day the ordering and performing the ceremony of the righteous guardian spirit (ardai fravardo)s are for the same soul and the remaining righteous guardian spirits of those who are and were and will be, from Gâyômard the propitious to Sôshâns the triumphant.
CHAPTER XXIX. 1. The twenty-eighth question is that you ask thus: For what reason is it not allowable to perform
1 No meat is to be eaten by the survivors until the third night has passed away (see Sls. XVII, 2).
? The angel Srôsh is said to have been the first creature who performed the sacred ceremony (see Yas. LVI, i, 2-7, ii, 2-4, iii, 2-4), of which the spiritual counterpart was produced by Adharmazd during the creation (see Bd. II, 9). 3 See Chap. XIV, 4.
See Sls. XVII, 3. See Sls. XVII, 5. . That is, from the first man to the last; the phrase is quoted from Yas. XXVI, 33.
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