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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will not cleanse him, he remits him the third of
his trespass1.
101 (287). Then he shall run another Hâthra, he shall run off again until he overtakes a man; if the man will not cleanse him, he remits him the half of his trespass3.
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102 (291). Then he shall run a third Hâthra, he shall run off a third time until he overtakes a man; if the man will not cleanse him, he remits him the whole of his trespass.
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103 (294). Thus shall he run forwards until he comes near a house, a borough, a town, an inhabited district, and he shall cry out with a loud voice: 'Here am I, one who has touched the corpse of a man, and who is powerless in mind, powerless in tongue, powerless in hand. Do make me clean." If they will not cleanse him, he shall cleanse his body with gômêz and water; thus shall he be clean ".'
104 (300). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If he find water on his way and the water make him subject to a penalty, what is the penalty that he shall pay ?
105 (303). Ahura Mazda answered: Four hundred stripes with the Aspahê-astra, four hundred stripes with the Sraoshô-karana.'
106 (304). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If he find trees on his way and the
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1As he takes it upon his own head.
The half of the remnant, that is the second third.
'He may then attend to his business; he may work and till; some say he must abstain from sacrifice (till he has undergone the Barashnûm)' (Comm.)
As he defiled it by crossing it.
Trees fit for the fire' (Comm.) If he touches those trees, the fire to which they are brought becomes unclean by his fault.
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