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 VIII.
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'They shall lay down a seventh bundle on the ground, a Vitasti away from the Nasu-burning fire ; then they shall take it farther and disperse it, that it may die out the sooner.
*They shall lay down an eighth bundle on the ground, a Vitasti away from the Nasu-burning fire; then they shall take it farther and disperse it, that it may die out the sooner.
78 (245). "They shall lay down a ninth bundle on the ground, a Vitasti away from the Nasu-burning fire; then they shall take it farther and disperse it, that it may die out the sooner.
79 (246). "If a man shall then piously bring unto the fire, O Spitama Zarathustra ! wood of Urvasna, or Vohu-gaona, or Vohd-kereti, or Hadha-naépata, or any other sweet-smelling wood;
80 (248). Wheresoever the wind shall bring the perfume of the fire, thereunto the fire of Ahura Mazda shall go and kill thousands of unseen Daêvas, thousands of fiends, the brood of darkness, thousands of couples of Yatus and Pairikas ?.'
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81 (251). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If a man bring a Nasu-burning fire to the Daityo-gâtu', what shall be his reward when his soul has parted with his body ?
It will have all the power of the Bahrâm fire. * The proper abode,' the Bahram fire. The Bahram fire is composed of a thousand and one fires belonging to sixteen different classes (ninety-one corpse-burning fires, eighty dyers' fires, &c.) As the earthly representative of the heavenly fire, it is the sacred centre to which every earthly fire longs to return, in order to be united again, as much as possible, with its native abode. The
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