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 XIX.
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gômêz from the ox, and twice with the water made by Mazda
23 (76). Thus Vohu-manð shall be made clean, and clean shall be the man. The man shall take up Vohu-mano with the left arm and the right, with the right arm and the left : and thou shalt lay down Vohu-mand under the mighty light of the heavens, by the light of the stars made by the gods, until nine nights have passed away
24 (80). When nine nights have passed away, thou shalt bring libations unto the fire, thou shalt bring hard wood unto the fire, thou shalt bring incense of Vohd-gaona unto the fire, and thou shalt perfume Vohu-mano therewith.
25 (82). “Thus shall Vohu-mano be made clean, and clean shall be the man? He shall take up Vohu-manÔ with the right arm and the left, with the left arm and the right, and Vohu-manô 6 shall say aloud : “Glory be to Ahura Mazda! Glory be to the Amesha-Spentas! Glory be to all the other holy beings.”
V. 26 (85). Zarathustra asked Ahura Mazda : 0 thou all-knowing Ahura Mazda : Should I urge
1.Or better six times with the gômêz and thrice with the water' (Comm.; cf. Farg. VIII, 37 seq.; IX, 28 seq.)
* The clothes' (Comm.)
# The clothes of the unclean shall be exposed to the air for nine nights, all the time while he himself is confined in the Armèst-gâh. The rules for the cleansing of clothes that have been worn by the dead himself are different (see Farg. VII, 12 seq.)
• Thus Vohu-mano shall be clean-the clothes; thus the man shall be clean-he who wears those clothes' (Comm.)
• The faithful one.
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