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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VENDIDÂD.
IX. 49 (163). 'If those two dogs of mine, the shepherd's dog and the house-dog, pass by any of my houses, let them never be kept away from it.
'For no house could subsist on the earth made by Ahura, but for those two dogs of mine, the shepherd's dog and the house-dog?'
X. 50 (166). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! When a dog dies, with marrow and seed ? dried up, whereto does his ghost go ?
51 (167). Ahura Mazda answered: 'It passes to the spring of the waters S, O Spitama Zarathustra ! and there out of them two water-dogs are formed: out of every thousand dogs and every thousand shedogs, a couple is formed, a water-dog and a water she-dog.
52 (170). “He who kills a water-dog brings about a drought that dries up pastures.
Until then, O Spitama Zarathustra! sweetness and
1. But for the dog not a single head of cattle would remain in existence' (Saddar 31).
s Marrow is the seat of life, the spine is the column and the spring of life' (Yt. X, 71); the sperm comes from it (Bundahis XVI). The same theory prevailed in India, where the sperm is called maggå-samudbhava, what is born from marrow;' it was followed by Plato (Timaeus 74, 91; cf. Censorinus, De die natali, 5), and disproved by Aristotle (De Part. Anim. III, 7).
• To the spring of Ardvî Sûra, the goddess of waters.
• There is therefore in a single water-dog as much life and holiness as in a thousand dogs. This accounts for the following.The water-dog (udra upâpa; Persian sag-fâbî) is the otter.
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