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on the property of that person, or it becomes the loss of this dwelling, or it does not reach him from the place whence wealth comes to him.
CHAPTER XII. 1. The twelfth subject is this, that, when any one dies, an order is necessary that how much soever scantier clothing they are able to make a beginning of, the better they act. 2. Beside (illa) something become old and washed, anything new is not proper for the purpose that they may let it go upon a dead body.
3. For in the commentary of the Vendidâdt it asserts that, if they shall pass on to a dead body as much as a woman's spindle makes for a single thread, with the exception of that which is unavoidable, for every single thread a black snake hangs, in that other world, on to the liver of that person who has made a beginning of the clothing. 4. Likewise, that dead person becomes his antagonist (hazm), and hangs similarly upon his skirt, and speaks thus : “This clothing, which thou hast put on my body, devours me, having become worms and noxious creatures. 5. My name was put upon a sacred cake, the fourth day, with a Yast, so that there
· B29 has it is necessary to utter two orders.'
Lp, B29 have older. Compare Sis. XII, 4.
Lp, B29 have that is.' * Pahl. Vend. V, 170-177, where, however, the penalty here mentioned is not now extant.
Lp, B29 omit similarly,' • Referring to the cake consecrated to the righteous guardian spirit on the fourth day after death (see Chap. LXXXVII, 2, Sls. III, 32 n, XVII, 5 n).
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| SR No. | 007677 |
| Book Title | Saddharma Pundarika |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | H Kern |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1884 |
| Total Pages | 2546 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 46 MB |