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 NİRANGISTÂN. - 321
If he can raise (it so, all well); if he cannot,
He shall recite with a medium voice and will be accepted.
27. How loud at the least shall he sing the Gâthas in order to be accepted ?
Loud enough for the nearest of the faithful, for this one or that one, to hear him with his own ears.
II. The Daran. 28. Amongst grains, (the draonô ") made with corn is accepted ?
III. Strong drink forbidden during the sacrifice 3.
29. Those who, from drinking too much strong drink, have not sung the Gathas",
On the first time it happens, have not to atone for it.
30. This is thy way of feeding :
When a pious man drinks strong drink, wine or mare's milk, and eating with moderation drinks with
i The draonô, daran, is a consecrated round little cake which is tasted by the Zôt at the end of the Srðsh daran (Yasna VIII, 4): it is a sort of Zoroastrian host.
* This sentence does not really belong to the Zend Nîrangistân; it is a quotation from some other Fargard, inserted in the Pahlavi commentary, though the analysis in the Dînkart, being based upon the Pahlavi text, mentions it among the matters treated in the Nîrangistân (Dinkart VIII, 29, 2: 'concerning the darûn, &c.').
s About abstaining from drinking strong wine during the sacrifice' (Dînkart VIII, 29, 3).
"They drink wine, get drunk, and do not celebrate the Gå
hânbår. (Comm.)
The first time they did not know the consequences of their intemperance, and are not considered responsible for them.
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