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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upon the godly man, should I urge upon the godly woman, should I urge upon the wicked Daêvaworshipper who lives in sin, to give the earth made by Ahura, the water that runs, the corn that grows, and all the rest of their wealth'?'
Ahura Mazda answered: 'Thou shouldst, O holy Zarathustra.'
27 (89). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Where are the rewards given ? Where does the rewarding take place ? Where is the rewarding fulfilled? Whereto do men come to take the reward that, during their life in the material world, they have won for their souls ?
28 (90). Ahura Mazda answered: “When the man is dead, when his time is over, then the wicked, evil-doing Daêvas cut off his eyesight. On the third night, when the dawn appears and brightens up, when Mithra, the god with beautiful weapons, reaches the all-happy mountains, and the sun is rising :
29 (94). "Then the fiend, named Vizaresha?, O Spitama Zarathustra, carries off in bonds 8 the souls of the wicked Daêva-worshippers who live in sin. The soul enters the way made by Time, and open both to the wicked and to the righteous. At the head of the Kinvad bridge, the holy bridge
Cf. § 29 end. · The demon Vîzaresh is he who, during that struggle of three days and three nights with the souls of the departed, carries terror on them and beats them: he sits at the gate of hell (Bund. XXVIII, 18).
SEvery one has a noose cast around his neck : when a man dies, if he has been a righteous man, the noose falls from his neck; if a wicked, they drag him with that noose down into hell' (Comm.; cf. Farg. V, 8).
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