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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EPISTLES OF MÂNÒSKÎHAR.
Adharmazd", which is a manifestation of righteousness?" 12. And Adharmazd spoke to him thus : “Thou shalt chant the purification liturgy, O Zaratůst!—that is, fully solemnize a Vendidad servicethen he becomes purified, &c.,”' as mentioned by me above? 13. Where they do not make them solemnize a Vendidâd so that they keep in operation that which is written of it as a rite, this does not drive pollution from any one; and then, too, they should abandon the commands of a decree of leaders who are not over them 3.
14. Keep the Bareshnùm ceremony in operation, so that the consecrated water and bull's urine are in the proportion which is taught by the high-priests of the religion, unless a scarcity occurs as regards these. 15. Then together with it, also, this is to be observed, that what is mentioned in two teachings is certainly more correct; afterwards, too, where a possibility for it is not obtained by them, there is what is mentioned as suitable by one teaching, and I do not decide that it is not an expediency.
16. And as to that, also, which is written concerning the three hundred pebbles that, sprinkled
anagrag rôshano. As sar means 'head, end' in Pahlavi (hardly ever beginning'), the only meaning common to the two terms asarag and anagrag seems to be 'without a head or superior, independent,' that is, in this case, independent of the light of other luminaries.
1K35 has righteousness, created by Adharmasd,' but this is evidently a mistake, as righteousness' does not translate the original Av. voha.
. That is, as to the fire, &c. mentioned in $11. • Referring to the heretical decree about which he is writing. • See App. IV. • See also Ep. II, iii, 13. The word generally used in these
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