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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VI. ERPATISTÂN AND NÍRANGISTÂN.
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If one rouse, and the other rise not, The one who roused is accepted!
20. How many assistants can the Zaotar lawfully have in the recitation of the Ahuna Vairya ?
As many as repeat after him in a hushed voice while he sings aloud or recites the Yasna.
21. If the Zaotar listen to the assistants, And his assistants listen not to the Zaotar, The Zaotar is accepted; And so are his assistants for all that they recite themselves.
If the Zaotar listen not to his assistants, The assistants are accepted; And so is the Zaotar for all that he recites himself.
22. The assistant is accepted who sings the Gåthas,
And follows inwardly the Yasna ® and the Fshashomathra ?;
For the man is guilty who does not follow the (prose) texts,
Even as the Gåthas. If he sing the Gathas and followinwardly the Yasna,
• How many Ráspis ?' (Comm.)- One of the offices of the Råspf is to make the responses to the Zot, and to answer atha ratus in the Ahuna Vairya recited as a dialogue.
Not for what has been recited by the Zaotar. • Not for what has been recited by the Råspis.
• The Råspi assisting the Zot in the recitation of the Gåthas. For instance, at the end of each Gathic Hâ, he repeats with the Zôt the initial stanza.
• The Yasna Haptanghaiti. ? The Tad sõidhis Hå (Yasna LVIII).
. Sravanghem; the prose texts, what is not Gâtha. He must repeat aloud the Gatha texts and follow the rest inwardly.
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