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may drive away that fiend through the assistance of one another. 4. And if a cock crows unseasonably it is likewise not desirable to kill it, because the reason may be this which I have stated.
5. For it is declared in the good religion, that there is a fiend whom they call Sêg?, and, in every house where an infant exists, that fiend strives that she may cause some misfortune to come upon that house. 6. So it is necessary that they should keep a cock on the watch for her, so that it may smite that fiend and force her to the road away from that house.
Chapter XXXIII. 1. The thirty-third subject is this, that, when there is a place and any risk or fear exists that a corpse2 is concealed beneath the ground, one is to make it apparent and visibles, because it is a great good work.
2. For it is declared in the good religion, that, when they conceal a corpse beneath the ground, Spendârmad 4, the archangel, shudders; it is just as severe as a serpent or scorpion would be to any one in private sleep, and i is also just like that to the ground. 3. When thou makest a corpse
Av. ith yêgô, Pers. sîk. In Pahl. Vend. XIX, 4, 6 she is said to be a secret-moving deceiver ;' in Bd. XXVIII, 26 she is said to 'cause annihilation.'
• Ordead matter.' 3 B29 has it is necessary to make it apparent.'
4 Av. spenta armaiti, 'bountiful devotion,' the female archangel who is supposed to have special charge of the earth (see Sls. XV, 20-24).
0 B29 has in a sleeping garment.'
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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 |