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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LXVIII, 1.
DUTIES OF A HOUSEHOLDER.
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(and the servants) have made their repast, let man and wife eat the leavings themselves.
42. Having shown honour to the gods, to the manes, to men, to those whom he is bound to maintain, and to the household deities (as well as to dogs, crows, and the rest), let a householder enjoy that which has been left.
43. He who cooks food for himself only, eats nothing but sin : for that alone is considered as fit food for the virtuous, which is left, after the (customary) oblations have been offered.
44. By the daily recitation of the Veda, .by the Agnihotra, by sacrificing, and by austerity, a householder does not obtain such excellent places of abode (after death) as by honouring a guest.
45. Whether he arrives in the evening or in the morning, he must offer a seat and water to his guest, and food, to the best of his ability, after having shown him marks of honour as the law directs !
46. By giving (to a guest) shelter, a bed, ointments for his feet, and a lamp: for each of these gifts singly he reaps the same reward as for the gift of a cow.
LXVIII. 1. He must not eat during an eclipse of the moon or of the sun.
45. 'For the rules regarding the reception of a guest, see Âsv. I, 24, and the other Grihya-sûtras; M. III, 119 seq., and the other Dharmasastras.
LXVIII. 12. M. IV, 55. — 14. M. IV, 45; Y. I, 131; Âpast. II, 8, 19, 18. — 19. M. IV, 74. — 20. M. IV, 65. - 21. M. IV, 63; Gaut. IX, 56. — 23. M. IV, 74. – 26. M. III, 106; Âpast. II, 4,8, 4.-27. M. IV, 62; À past. II, 8, 18, 1; II, 8, 20, 10; Gaut. IX, 58. – 29. M. IV, 75. — 34. M. IV, 76. — 37. M. IV, 37; Y.
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