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 IX.
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eating creatures made by the beneficent Spirit, unto the vultures, with these words :
““The man here has repented of all his evil thoughts, words, and deeds.
50 (183). ““If he has committed any other evil deed, it is remitted by his repentance; if he has committed no other evil deed, he is absolved by his repentance for ever and ever?.”'
51 (187). Who is he, O Ahura Mazda! who threatens to take away fulness and increase from the world, and to bring in sickness and death ?
52 (188). Ahura Mazda answered: 'It is the ungodly Ashemaogha 3, O Spitama Zarathustra! who in this material world cleanses the unclean without knowing the rites of cleansing according to the law of Mazda.
53 (190). "For until then, O Spitama Zarathustra! sweetness and fatness would flow out from that land and from those fields, with health and healing, with fulness and increase and growth, and a growing of corn and grasso.'
54 (191). O Maker of the material world, thou
1. The cleanser who has not performed the cleansing according to the rites, shall be taken to a desert place; there they shall nail him with four nails, they shall take off the skin from his body, and cut off his head. If he has performed Patet for his sin, he shall be holy (that is, he shall go to Paradise); if he has not performed Patet, he shall stay in hell till the day of resurrection' (Fraser Ravâet, p. 398). Cf. Farg. III, 20–21 and note 5. * See Farg. III, 20 seq.
See Farg. V, 35 Cf. XIII, 52 seq. The false cleanser is punished as would be a man who would introduce an epidemic. He undergoes the same penalty as the evak-bar, but with none of the mitigation allowed in the case of the latter, on account of the sacrilegious character of his usurpation.
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