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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VISHNU.
LXIV, 1.
honoured by the rest (excepting the Snâtaka); but the king himself must show honour to a Snâtaka.
LXIV. 1. He must not bathe in another man's pool;
2. In cases of distress (if there is no other water at hand) he may bathe (in another man's pool), after having offered up five (or seven, or four) lumps of clay and (three jars with) water.
3. (He must not bathe) during an indigestion ;
4. Nor while he is afflicted (with a fever or other illness);
5. Nor without his clothes ; 6. Nor at night; 7. Unless it be during an eclipse; 8. Nor in the
twilight.
9. He must bathe early in the morning, when he beholds the east reddening with the rays of the (rising) sun.
10. After having bathed, he must not shake his head (in order to remove the water from his hair);
11. And he must not dry his limbs (with his hand or with a cloth);
12. Nor must he touch any oily substance.
LXIV. 1. M. IV, 201. — 1, 2. Y. I, 159. — 3, 4. M. IV, 129.5. M. IV, 45; Gaut. IX, 61; Asv. III, 9, 6; Pâr. II, 7, 6; Sankh. IV, 12, 31. - 6. M. IV, 129. – 12. M. IV, 83. – 13. Sânkh. IV, 12, 32. - 15. Gaut. IX, 16. - 16. M. IV, 263 ; Y. I, 159. — 24. M. IV, I52; Y. I, IOO.– 27. Y. I, I96. .
5. The term nagna, literally naked,' has to be taken in its widest sense here. According to Bhrigu and Gobhila it includes, besides one wholly undressed, one without his upper garment, one who has dirty clothes on, one clad in lower garments of silk only, one who wears double clothing or even a greater number of clothes, one who wears a small piece of cloth over the pudenda only,' &c. (Nand.) See also M. IV, 129.
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