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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words aloud: “This earth we worship, this earth with the women, this earth which bears us and those women who are thine, O Ahura ?!"
6 (17). 'If thou wantest to cleanse the cow, say these words aloud : “The best of all works we will fulfil while we order both the learned and the unlearned, both masters and servants to secure for the cattle a good resting-place and fodder ?."
'If thou wantest to cleanse the trees, say these words aloud : “For him, as a reward, Mazda made the plants grow up 4."
7 (21). 'If thou wantest to cleanse the faithful man or the faithful woman, say these words aloud : "May the vow-fulfilling Airyaman come hither, for the men and women of Zarathustra to rejoice, for Vohu-mand to rejoice; with the desirable reward that Religion deserves. I solicit for holiness that boon that is vouchsafed by Ahura!"
8 (25). Then thou shalt say these victorious, most healing words. Thou shalt chant the AhunaVairya eight times :
1 Yasna XXXVIII, 1.
Who are thine,' that is, who are thy
wives.'
• Yasna XXXV, 4. "Let those excellent deeds be done for the behoof of cattle, that is to say, let stables be made, and water and fodder be given' (Comm.)
For him, that is to say, to feed him; also out of him;' for it was from the body of the first-born bull that, after his death, grew up all kinds of plants (Bund. IV). • Yasna XLVIII, 6. Cf. Farg. XVII, 5.
Yasna LIV, 1. Cf. Farg. XX, 11. There is no special spell for the cleansing of the sun, the moon, the stars, and the boundless light (see 88 1, 2), because they are not defiled by the unclean one. they are only pained by seeing him (Farg. IX, 41); as soon as he is clean, they are freed from the pain.
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