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may not thereby be rapidly a cause of wickedness or death for any one?.
7. And if one does not show a dog to the corpse, and they take it up, how many soever there be, the whole of them become polluted? 8. In the commentary of the Vendidâd it is asserted, that every one who takes up a corpse that a dog has not seen is polluted and worthy of deaths, and never becomes clean; his soul also would be wicked.
CHAPTER LXXI. . 1. The seventy-first subject is this, that, forasmuch as it is not desirable for any one to eat dead matter for the sake of medicine and remedy, let them beware (zinhâr) when they eat ito.
2. For it asserts, in the commentary of the Vendidâds, that it is requisite to demolish the habitation, house, and abode of any one who has 6 eaten dead matter, and to fetch his heart out of his body, and it is necessary to scoop out his eyes. 3. And along · with these torments, which they accomplish on him, his soul is in hell till the resurrection.
CHAPTER LXXII. 1. The seventy-second subject is this, that when any one carries dead matter to water, or to fire, he is
1 Lp, B29 omit for any one.'
* B29 has merely and if, to make a dog gaze at the corpse, they take it up, it is on how many soever there be.' 3 Compare Sls. II, 65.
B29 has beware that they do not eat it.' • Perhaps alluding to Pahl. Vend. VII, 59-64. * B29 has to demolish his house and abodę if any one has.'
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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 |