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 NIRANGISTÂN.
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104. If a man come and tie the Baresman of another of the faithful1,
If the latter be within a hâthra distance, the former is not accepted".
If the latter be not within a hâthra distance 3, the former man is accepted if he sing the hymns *; if not, he is not accepted.
III. The firewood and implements of Sacrifice. 105. If a man give a charge to a child of a pious family",
And say: 'bring me wood and Baresman;'
If the child bring wood already cut, the worship is accepted.
If the child do not bring wood already cut, the worship is not accepted.
If he give the charge to a woman or to a child,
If he give the charge to a Daêva-worshipper, or to a man in a state of sin,
Atha ratus mazdayasnô ahmî mazdayasno Zarathustris, od, åstûitis nemô ve gâthau ashaonîs ustâ ahmâi. Khsvas vaghribis (cf. § 67, end).
• Nôid thryam upamanam frâkhsashyanam (read fravâkhshayanăm).
1 A priest has prepared everything for the sacrifice, when another priest comes, possesses himself of the apparatus, and offers up the
sacrifice.
'He could easily have asked for the permission of his fellowpriest and had no right to act without it.
So that he could not be easily asked for permission.
If he performs the whole of the ceremony. Of a good sacerdotal family.
The child serves him as
a ratunaya (a sacerdotal servant).
It is not certain that the young ratunaya could do it properly.
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