Zend Avesta Part 01

Author(s): James Darmesteter
Publisher: Oxford

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CONTENTS.
(26-29). Blows . (30-33). Wounds. (34-36). Wounds causing blood to flow . . (37-39). Broken bones . .
. . . . (40-43). Manslaughter . . . .
. III a (44-45). Contract of charity to co-religionists
IV a (46). Heinousness of false oath. . . -III b (47-49 a). Dignity of wealth; of marriage ; of phy
sical weal . . . . . . . . . . IV b (49 6-55). Heinousness of false oath. Ordeal .
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FARGARD V. . . . . . . . . . .
I (1-7). If a man defile the fire or the earth with dead
matter (Nasu) involuntarily or unconsciously, it is no sin . II (8-9). Water and fire do not kill . . . . . III (10-14). Disposal of the dead during winter, when it is
not possible to take them to the Dakhma . . . . IV (15-20). Why Ahura, while forbidding man to defile water, sends water from the heavens down to the Dakhmas,
covered with corpses. How he purifies that water. . V (21-26). On the excellence of purity and of the law that
shows how to recover purity, when lost . VI (27-38). On the defiling power of the Nasu being
greater or less, according to the greater or less dignity of the being that dies . . . .
. . VII (39-44). On the management of sacrificial implements
defiled with Nasu. VIII (45-62). On the treatment of a woman who has been
delivered of a still-born child ; and what is to be done
with her clothes . . . . . . . . FARGARD VI. . . . . . . . . . .
I (1-9). How long the earth remains unclean, when defiled by the dead
by the dead . . . . . . . . . II (10-25). Penalties for defiling the ground with dead matter III (26-41). Purification of the different sorts of water,
when defiled by the dead . . . . . . . IV (42-43). Purification of the Haoma : V (44-51). The place for corpses; the Dakhmas . . FARGARD VII. . . . . . . . . . .
I (1-5). How long after death the Drug Nasu takes posses
sion of the corpse II (6-9). How far the defiling power of the Drug Nasu extends III (10-22). Cleansing of clothes defiled by the dead. . IV (23-24). Eating of Nasu an abomination . . . V (25-27). Bringing Nasu to fire or water an abomination
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can, when defiled
III (26-3; Penalties for desi
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