Questions of King Milinda Part 02

SR No.: 007682
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: T W Rhys Davids
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1894
Total Pages: 2240
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 38 MB

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DINKARD, BOOK VIII.
share of the fires and waters to be taken”, and how is the preparation which is to be carried on, and with what Avesta. 3. And whatever is about a seasonfestival; where the appointed place is, when one celebrates it, and when it has fully elapsed; the assembly of the season-festival, and the donation for the feast; where and when the celebration is possible, in what proportion the provisions are to be given out, and when to be prepared and divided ; where its advantage is, and what benefit there is from it to the good creations both spiritually and materially.
4. And this, namely, what skill is more suitable for the sacerdotal (rad-pisag) leadership and other priestly authority (radih) each separately. 5. About the business of the sacerdotal leadership, where it is owing to having appointed the place and having gone forth to the assembly of the Mazda-worshippers, and when they are to be made aware that that assembly is more particularly for the arrangement of renunciation of vice and retribution for sin; the needful supply of things for the feast; the selection of the men for the Zôti duty and Râspi duty before the day?; the Zotis, Raspis, and others who put in action the work for the preparation and giving of the portions; and the cleansing of the body-clothing. 6. As to the selection of the president (pês-gås) of the feast there is this, namely, what ability is requisite for that presidentship. 7. The allotment of the portions, and giving them sooner to those who are sooner in need of them. 8. Scoffing before
The heart for the fires, and the fore-legs for the waters, according to Sls. XI, 4.
: The Zôti is the chief officiating priest in the ceremonial, and the Râspî is the assistant priest.
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