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 VII.
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the shape of a raging fly, with knees and tail sticking out, droning without end, and like unto the foulest Khrafstras 1.
[3. 'On him she stays until the dog has seen the corpse ? or eaten it up, or until the flesh-eating birds have taken flight towards it. When the dog has seen it or eaten it up, or when the flesh-eating birds have taken flight towards it, then the Drug Nasu rushes away to the regions of the north in the shape of a raging Ay, with knees and tail sticking out, droning without end, and like unto the foulest Khrafstras.']
4 (5). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If the man has been killed by a dog, or by a wolf, or by witchcraft, or by the artifices of hatred“, or by falling down a precipice, or by the law, or by calumnyo, or by the noose ?, how long after death does the Drug Nasu come and rush upon the dead ?
5 (6). Ahura Mazda answered : At the next watch after death, the Drug Nasu comes and
Khrafstra is a general denomination for noxious animals. * Until the Sag-did has been performed (see VIII, 16 seq.)
* The Sag-did may be performed by birds of prey as well as by dogs. The dog smites the Nasu when it brings its muzzle near to the dead, the bird (mountain hawk, sparrow (?), or eagle) when its shadow passes over the body (Comm. ad § 2; cf. § 29). $ 3 is from the Vendidâd Sada. • By poison' (Comm.)
Literally, ‘by men;' that is to say, put to death by the community according to law (Comm.)
• If he has been condemned unjustly. * If he has strangled himself.
• The day is divided into five watches or ratu. If the man dies a natural death, the Drug comes directly; if the death be violent and unlooked for, the Drug comes later (as the corruption does not set in so quickly).
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