Zend Avesta Part 02

SR No.: 007672
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Darmesteter
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1883
Total Pages: 2221
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 41 MB

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CHAPTER XLIV, 32-43.
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ject?. 36. About the place on which a corpse is fettered (garovi-aito), and also that in which it is buried through sinfulness; and in how much time it becomes pure, in each case separately? 37. About the much lodgment of the demons there where a corpse is buried (nikân), and the merit of laying open (åskârinidano) the place of burial (nikânth) of a corpse 3.
38. About the duration of not drinking by a woman who has miscarried (visistako); also her not feeding on the liquid of that which is watery food 4. 39. About the washing of a metallic, stony, or any other cup-like article, upon which dead matter has come, and which is not pronounced useless. 40. About the animal (gôspend) that has eaten dead matter, and the plant with which dead matter is mingled . 41. About the sin of holy water being brought to water which is tàinted with dead matter?.
42. About the house (khâno) in which a dog or a human being passes away 8. 43. About how large and how one has to make the vault (kadako) for the sake of a corpse in a dwelling (mân), carrying the corpse to it, when the time comes to expose and avoid it, and whatever is on the same subject'.
1 Vend. VII, 36-44.
3 Vend. VII, 45-50. • Vend. VII, 51, 52, 55-59, which refers to tombs and mausoleums (uzdaêza uzdista) and not to the legal dakhmas, or depositories for the dead. $$ 51, 52 are described after the others.
• Vend. VII, 60, 67–71. The contents of VII, 61-66 are not mentioned, being abbreviated in the MSS. as a repetition of V, 46-51.
o Vend. VII, 73-75. • Vend. VII, 76, 77, where, however, plants are not mentioned. 7 Vend. VII, 78, 79.
• Vend. VIII, 1-3. Vend. VIII, 4-25.
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