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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EPISTLE I, CHAPTER VI, 10-VII, 4.
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one cup of bull's urine, which are well alike (vêhmål)', are requisite;" and in the same manner it is said in the teaching of Medyðk-mah, that "the water and bull's urine, when it is possible, are all to be thoroughly consecrated; when not-and, at the lowest, one cup of water and one cup of bull's urine, which are well alike, for every single person-they are to be set down in that place, and are afterwards to be mingled together?.” 2. And since two teachings have so stated, are we to perform the operation more preservatively and according to a more correct opinion than this ?'
3. Also, 'a correct apportionment is not understood by us, and clear reasons have not come to our knowledge that a less measure of the thing is proper.' 4. But I well imagine (h Q-minam) this is not the operation of the purifying cup (tâstiko), where a less thing is not proper, because the information with which they have existed-owing to that information of theirs, of which a former highpriest and deliberator was the communicator-is that which was heard by me, that there are some who, for the sake of diminishing the measure of water and bull's urine, speak of this apportionment thus : ‘Vikithrekid", in everything the operation
Pahl. Vend. IX, 132, с the phrase is pavan kamistih, which can mean only at the minimum, or least.'
In Pahl. Vend. IX, 132, s, where this statement occurs, the first letter of this word is omitted, which converts it into shumâr, alike. Either word may be correct, but vêh-mål occurs twice in this section.
* This statement of Medyők-mâh seems no longer extant in the Pahlavi Vendidad.
* That is, in a way more delivering from pollution and sin. • This word, which probably means 'in whatever is varied,' was
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