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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XCVI, 57.
ASCETIC.
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43. He must recognise this human frame to consist of seven elements.
44. Those elements are, adeps, blood, flesh, serum of flesh, bone, marrow, and semen.
45. It is covered with skin. 46. And it has a nasty smell.
47. It is the receptacle of (the above-named) impure substances (adeps and the rest).
48. Though surrounded by a hundred pleasures, it is subject to change.
49. Though carefully supported (by elixirs and the like), it is subject to destruction.
50. It is the stay of carnal desire, wrath, greed, folly, pride, and selfishness.
51. It consists of earth, water, fire, air, and ether.
52. It is provided with bone, tubular vessels (carrying bile and phlegm through the body), tubes (conducting the vital airs), and sinews.
53. It is endowed with the quality of ragas (passion).
54. It is covered with six skins.
55. It is kept together by three hundred and sixty bones.
56. They are distributed (as follows) :
57. The teeth together with their receptacles are sixty-four in number.
46. The particle ka, according to Nand., refers to the fact that the human body is defiled by the touch of impure objects.
48. The meaning is that, though food and drink and other sensual enjoyments abound, they may cause pain as well as pleasure by producing phlegm, &c.' (Nand.)
51. 'Earth,' i.e. the flesh and bone, &c.; 'water,' i. e. the blood; 'fire,' i. e. the digestive faculty, the eyesight, &c.; 'air,' i.e. the five vital airs; 'ether,' i. e. the space enclosed by the airs, in the mouth, in the belly, &c. (Nand.)
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