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

Page 544

56
VENDÎDÂD.
my people that they may live on it, and fodder to the beneficent cow.'
21 (63). This 1 is the best, this is the fairest of all things, even as thou hast said, O pure [Zarathustra]!"
With these words the holy Ahura Mazda rejoiced the holy Zarathustra 2 : 'Purity is for man, next to life, the greatest good, that purity, O Zarathustra, that is in the Religion of Mazda for him who cleanses his own self with good thoughts, words, and deeds 4.'
22 (68). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! This Law, this fiend-destroying Law of Zarathustra", by what greatness, goodness, and fairness is it great, good, and fair above all other utterances ?
23 (69). Ahura Mazda answered: As much above all other floods as is the sea Vouru-kasha, so much above all other utterances in greatness, goodness, and fairness is this Law, this fienddestroying Law of Zarathustra.
24 (71). 'As much as a great stream flows swifter than a slender rivulet, so much above all other utterances in greatness, goodness, and fairness is this Law, this fiend-destroying Law of Zarathustra.
· The cleansing, the purification.
8.When Zoroaster saw that man is able to escape sin by performing good works, he was filled with joy' (Comm.)
& Quotation from the Gathas (Yasna XLVIII, 5c).
+ That is to say, 'Who performs the rites of cleansing according to the prescriptions of the law.'
The Law (Datem), that part of the religious system of
Digitized by Google