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.
and when it is possible for him to set it aside and not to do it.
4. About advice as to having entered into a house in the night by the light of a fire, or when one has noticed it in this place, though he goes elsewhere; also the watchful destruction of an injured person, or animal, or garment, and the retribution for the injury. 5. About the extent of any glitter of the sparks (zakhsh-1-1 parkân), and the width and height of the doors of the constructed work of that appointed place of the fire.
6. About a new-born child, as to how one has to provide its place, connected lawfully with illumination', more particularly for the first three nights. 7. About bringing a fire to drive away the overpowering fiend, and making the child taste first the Hôm-juice, so far as collected within its precincts (varân), and, secondly, the butter of Maidôk-zarem ? which is to be brought forward for it; also the watchfulness of the father and mother over the child, and the extent of their retiring (navistano) from the two sides of the new-born. 8. About lawfully-made places of several kinds for the child, the limits and manner of the mother's giving milk to the child, and whatever is on the same subject.
9. About carrying forth holy-water, or even a cooking-pot, to a fire, where the hands are purified and thoroughly washed; and the sin owing to an un
1 To protect it from the demons who are supposed to be specially dangerous during the first three nights.
* Equivalent to mid-spring butter,' the Av. maidhyo-zaremaya, mid-verdure,' being the season corresponding to the middle of the second Parsi month, which was early in May when the year commenced at the vernal equinox (see Bd. XXV, 6, 21).
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