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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FARGARD V.
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birds, by wolves, by winds, or by flies, how soon all this material world of mine would be only one Peshôtanu', bent on the destruction of righteousness, and whose soul will cry and wail 2! So numberless are the beings that die upon the face of the earth.'
Ib. 5 (15). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Here is a man watering a corn-field. The water streams down the field; it streams again; it streams a third time; and the fourth time, a dog, a fox, or a wolf carries some Nasu into the bed of the stream: what is the penalty that the man shall pays?
6 (19). Ahura Mazda answered : 'There is no sin upon a man for any Nasu that has been brought by dogs, by birds, by wolves, by winds, or by flies.
7 (20). "For were there sin upon a man for any Nasu that might have been brought by dogs, by birds, by wolves, by winds, or by flies, how soon all this material world of mine would be only one Peshotanu, bent on the destruction of righteousness, and whose soul will cry and wail! so numberless are the beings that die upon the face of the earth.'
1 'People guilty of death' (Comm.) Cf. Yasna LIII, 9 b.
• After their death, "When the soul, crying and beaten off, is driven far away from Paradise' (Comm.) This is imitated from the Gathas (Yasna XLVI, IC; LI, 13 b; cf. Vd. XIII, 8-9).
* For defiling the earth and the water: 'If a man wants to irrigate a field, he must first look after the water-channel, whether there is dead matter in it or not. . . . . If the water, unknown to him, comes upon a corpse, there is no sin upon him. If he bas not looked after the rivulet and the stream, he is unclean' (Saddar 75).
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