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 XII.
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Fourth degree. {
cousin ($ 15)
Sixth degree. 1 daughter of a cousia
For grandfather or grand
mother (89) d degree. For grandson or grand-}25 days (or 50).
I daughter (11) Third degree. For uncle or aunt (§ 13): 20 days (or 40). For male cousin or female
ale > 15 days (or 30). For the son or daughter of a Fifth degree.
hter of a } 10 days (or 20).
who * I cousin ($ 17) j For the grandson or the grand
daughter of a cousin ($ 19) ] 5 days (or 10). 1. If one's father or mother dies, how long shall they stay [in mourning), the son for his father, the daughter for her mother? How long for the righteous ? How long for the sinners ??
Ahura Mazda answered: “They shall stay thirty days for the righteous, sixty days for the sinners.'
2 (5). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! How shall I cleanse the house? How shall it be clean again?
Ahura Mazda answered: “You shall wash your bodies three times, you shall wash your clothes three times, you shall chant the Gâthas three times; you shall offer up a sacrifice to my Fire, you shall bind the bundles of Baresma, you shall bring libations to the good waters ? ; then the house shall be clean, and then the waters may enter, then the fire may enter, and then the Amesha-Spentas may enter*, O Spitama Zarathustra !'
| How long if the dead person died in a state of holiness (a dahma)? How long if in the state of a Peshôtanu ?
* This refers probably to the sacrifice that is offered on each of the three days that follow the death of a Zoroastrian for the saly tion of his soul.
All the other objects over which the Amesha-Spentas preside (such as the cow, the metals, &c.)
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