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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76 (242). "Thus they shall lay a first bundle on the ground', a Vitastiaway from the Nasu-burning fire; then they shall take it farther and disperse it, that it may die out the sooner.
77 (245). "They shall lay down a second bundle on the ground, a Vitasti away from the Nasuburning fire; then they shall take it farther and disperse it, that it may die out the sooner.
'They shall lay down a third bundle on the ground, a Vitasti away from the Nasu-burning fire; then they shall take it farther and disperse it, that it may die out the sooner.
*They shall lay down a fourth bundle on the ground, a Vitasti away from the Nasu-burning fire; then they shall take it farther and disperse it, that it may die out the sooner.
*They shall lay down a fifth bundle on the ground, a Vitasti away from the Nasu-burning fire; then they shall take it farther and disperse it, that it may die out the sooner.
• They shall lay down a sixth bundle on the ground, a Vitasti away from the Nasu-burning fire; then they shall take it farther and disperse it, that it may die out the sooner.
mediate fires, more and more distant from the original impurity, will represent the fire in its native purity and can enter into the composition of a Bahrâm fire.— On the modern process, see Dosabhoy Frâmjî, History of the Parsis, II, 213.
In a hole dug for that purpose; such is at least the custom nowadays. The ceremony is thus made an imitation of the Baraslınům. The unclean fire, represented by the nine bundles, passes through the nine holes, as the unclean man does (see above, $ 37 seq. and Farg. IX, 12 seq.), and leaves at each of them some of the uncleanness it has contracted.
? A span of twelve fingers.
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