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.
79
...'Those clothes shall serve for their coverings and for their sheets'.'...
III.
10 (26). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! What part of his bedding and pillow does the Drug Nasu defile with corruption, infection, and pollution ?
11 (27). Ahura Mazda answered: The Drug Nasu defiles with corruption, infection, and pollution the upper sheet and the inner garments.'
12 (28). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Can that garment be made clean, O holy Ahura Mazda! that has been touched by the carcase of a dog or the corpse of a man?.
13 (29). Ahura Mazda answered: 'It can, O holy Zarathustra !'.
How so?
'If there be on the garment seed, or blood, or dirt, or vomit, the worshippers of Mazda shall rend it to pieces, and bury it under the ground
14 (33). “But if there be no seed (on the garment), nor blood, nor dirt, nor vomit, then the worshippers of Mazda shall wash it with gômêz.
15 (35). "If it be leather, they shall wash it with gômêz three times, they shall rub it with earth three
* This phrase, which forms part of $ 19, is wrongly inserted here.
· The bedding on which he has died.
* The upper sheet of the bed and the inner garment of the body, that is to say, only those clothes which have been in direct contact with the dead.
• According to the Commentary only that part which has been defiled is rent off; the rest may still be used.
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