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EPISTLES OF MÂNUSKÎHAR.
from bonds, and the purification of body and soul is connected with it.
16. These things those of the primitive faith, who provided for the moderns, have communicated, whose position was above us moderns who are now the law (gün) of others, and are teachers and rulers; our station as regards them is the position (gasih) of disciples to spiritual masters, that of listeners and servitors to form and hold the opinion, about the same and other things, which those of the primitive faith formed; and the teaching of even one of those high-priests is greater and higher than our sayings and decisions.
17. And as to every custom there may be in the country of Irân, about casting away the Bareshnům ceremony, as written by me, and about all the polluted, as above written-whom it is possible to wash, for any indispensable reason whatever, with the Bareshnům as written by me, and one does not wash with the Bareshnům as written by me, but is ordered to wash for fifteen times, as written by me, and to pronounce as clean-and which is established as a rule one is urged to practise, if Zad-sparam or any one else has ordered, said, or decided in the name of authority that one is to do so, or has estab lished it as a rule, or set it going, this is to give authoritatively my opinion, decision, and enactment upon it likewise. 18. That those same sayings are short-sighted (aê-vênako), that same order is unlawfully given, that same decision is false teaching, that same rule is vicious, that same setting going is grievously sinful, and that same authority is not to be accepted; it is a practice, therefore, not to be performed, and whoever has performed it, is to
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| SR No. | 007676 |
| Book Title | Text of Confucianism Part 02 |
| 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 |