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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he shall kill ten thousand ants of the small, venomous mischievous kind'.
6 (16). “He shall kill ten thousand worms of those that live on dirt ; he shall kill ten thousand raging Alies ?
He shall fill up ten thousand holes for the unclean.
'He shall godly and piously give to godly meno twice the set of seven implements for the fire', to redeem his own soul, namely :
7 (20). “The two answering implements for fire 6 ; a broom?; a pair of tongs; a pair of round bellows extended at the bottom, contracted at the top; a sharp-edged sharp-pointed adze; a sharp-toothed sharp-pointed saw; by means of which the worshippers of Mazda procure wood for the fire of Ahura Mazda.
8 (26). “He shall godly and piously give to godly men a set of the priestly instruments of which the priests make use, to redeem his own soul, namely: The Astrao; the meat-vessel; the Paitidâ na 10; the
"Perhaps: 'of the small, venomous kind, with a mischievous track' (Bund. XIX, 28: when the grain-carrier travels over the earth, it produces a hollow track: when the hedgehog travels over it, the track goes away from it and it becomes level :' cf. Farg. XIII, 2, note).
· Corpse-flies; cf. Farg. VII, 2.
8. The holes at which the unclean are washed' (Comm.; cf. Farg. IX, 6 seq.) • To priests.
6 For the sacred fire. • Two receptacles, one for the wood, another for the incense. * To cleanse the Atash-dân or fire-vessel (Yasna IX, 1).
Literally, 'sharp-kneed.' • The Aspahê-astra. 10 As everything that goes out of man is unclean, his breath defiles all that it touches ; priests, therefore, while on duty, and even laymen, while praying or eating, must wear a mouth-veil, the
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