Sacred Laws of Aryas

SR No.: 007687
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Gorge Buhler
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1897
Total Pages: 1979
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 36 MB

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VENDIDAD.
the wife and children of one of the faithful', O Spitama Zarathustra! are driven along the way of captivity, the dry, the dusty way, and lift up a voice of wailing.'
III.
12 (38). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Who is the first that rejoices the Earth with greatest joy?
Ahura Mazda answered: 'It is he who digs out of it most corpses of dogs and men '.'
13 (41). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Who is the second that rejoices the Earth with greatest joy?
Ahura Mazda answered: 'It is he who pulls down most of those Dakhmas on which the corpses of men are deposited 3.'
14 (44). Let no man alone by himself carry a corpse'. If a man alone by himself carry a corpse,
1 Killed by an enemy.
This joy answers the second grief of the earth (§ 8; cf. note). There is no counterpart given to the first grief (§ 7), because, as the Commentary naively expresses it, 'it is not possible now so to dig out hell,' which will be done at the end of the world (Bund. XXX, 32). This answers the third grief (§ 9; cf. note).
• No ceremony in general can be performed by one man alone. Two Mobeds are wanted to perform the Vendîdâd service, two priests for the Barashnûm, two persons for the Sag-dîd (Anquetil, II, 584 n.) It is never good that the faithful should be alone, as the fiend is always lurking about, ready to take advantage of any moment of inattention. If the faithful be alone, there is no one to make up for any negligence and to prevent mischief arising from it. Never is the danger greater than in the present case, when the fiend is close at hand, and in direct contact with the faithful.
A corpse from which the Nasu has not been expelled by the Sag-did ceremony (described Vd. VIII, 14–22).
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