Zend Avesta Part 01

SR No.: 007671
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Darmesteter
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1895
Total Pages: 2695
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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LXIII, 35.
DUTIES OF A HOUSEHOLDER.
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30. Or a fan, or a chowrie, or a horse, or an elephant, or a goat, or a cow (having a calf), or sour milk, or milk, or honey, or white mustard ;
31. Or a lute, or sandal-wood, or a weapon, or fresh cow-dung, or fruit, or a flower, or a fresh potherb, or Gorokanâ, or blades of Dûrvâ grass;
32. Or a turban, or ornaments, or jewels, or gold, or silver, or clothes, or a seat, or a vehicle, or (raw) meat;
33. Or a golden vase, or cultivated land which is being carried away (by a stream), or a single (bull or other) piece of cattle tied with a rope, or an unmarried damsel (clad in white), or a (boiled) fish, (let him turn his right side towards them and) go on.
34. Having seen one intoxicated, or insane, or deformed, he must turn back;
35. (Also, if he has seen one who has vomited, or one who has been purged, or one who has had his head shorn, or one who wears all his hair tied in one knot, or a dwarf;
30. "The particle ka, which is added at the end of this Sûtra, refers to a king, his ministers, his domestic priest, &c., as indicated in a Smriti passage.' (Nand.)
31. Nand. infers from another Smriti passage that ka here refers to a crow and to a Sadra or workman with his tools.
32. Nand. here refers ka to shells and other objects mentioned in a Smriti.
33. Nand. here refers ka to a dead body and other objects enumerated in a Smriti.
34. The enumeration of auspicious objects in Sätras 29-33 is followed by an enumeration of inauspicious objects in Sûtras 34-38. (Nand.)
35. The particle ka refers to enemies, outcasts, and others mentioned in a Smriti. (Nand.)
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