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 XVIII.
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beings, the best knowing, the most pleased in answering what is asked of me; demand of me that thou mayst be the better, that thou mayst be the happier.
61 (123). Zarathustra asked Ahura Mazda : Who grieves thee with the sorest grief? Who pains thee with the sorest pain ?'
62 (124). Ahura Mazda answered: 'It is the Gahi", O Spitama Zarathustra! who mixes in her the seed of the faithful and the unfaithful, of the worshippers of Mazda and the worshippers of the Daêvas, of the wicked and the righteous *.
63 (125). Her look dries up one-third of the mighty floods that run from the mountains, o Zarathustra ; her look withers one-third of the beautiful, golden-hued, growing plants, O Zarathustra;
64 (127). Her look withers one-third of the strength of Spenta Ârmaiti 3 ; and her touch withers in the faithful one-third of his good thoughts, of his good words, of his good deeds, one-third of his strength, of his victorious power, and of his holiness *.
65 (129). "Verily I say unto thee, O Spitama Zarathustra! such creatures ought to be killed even
1 The courtezan, as an incarnation of the female demon Gahi.
3. [Whether she gives up her body to the faithful or to the unfaithful], there is no difference; when she has been with three men, she is guilty of death' (Comm.)
The earth. * "If a Gahi (courtezan) look at running waters, they fall; if at trees, they are stunted; if she converse with a pious man, his intelligence and his holiness are withered by it' (Saddar 67). Cf. Manu IV, 40 seq.
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