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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the water? How far from the consecrated bundles of Baresma? How far from the faithful?
48 (144). Ahura Mazda answered: 'Thirty paces from the fire; thirty paces from the water; thirty paces from the consecrated bundles of Baresma; three paces from the faithful' ;
49 (145). On that place shall the worshippers of Mazda erect an enclosure, and therein shall they establish her with food, therein shall they establish her with clothes.'
FARGARD V.
50 (147). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! What is the food that the woman shall first take?
51 (148).
Ahura Mazda answered: Gômêz mixed with ashes, three draughts of it, or six, or nine, to send down the Dakhma within her womb 1.
52 (151). 'Afterwards she may drink boiling" milk of mares, cows, sheep, or goats, with pap or without pap; she may take cooked milk without
1 The carrier alone is kept thirty feet from the faithful (Farg. III, 18), as he is cut off from the community: his food is not brought to him, he has a store prepared for him. The woman, when armêst, is only temporarily isolated; she stays in the house and her food is brought to her all but from hand to hand (Farg. XVI, 6).
The place for the man or woman in state of uncleanness, or Armêst-gâh.
Urine of the ox: the so-called Nîrang-dîn; cf. Farg. VIII, 37; XIX, 21. 'Three cups, or six, or nine, according to her strength' (Asp.)
• Her womb is a Dakhma, as it contained a dead body.-These nine draughts of gômêz mixed with ashes are like an interior Barashnûm, as the Barashnûm consists of nine successive purifications with gômêz and dust. • Doubtful.
• Doubtful.
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