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 XVIII, I-XIX, 3.
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about the pregnancy of the demon from him who has eaten and chattered in sinfulness towards Khurdad and Amardad, or who makes water when standing ?, or who heedlessly sees his semen. 2. And the hussy 3 who spills (gûyêdó) anything after sunset (hak-frâshmôk-dâd), or who scatters a morsel (dânar) of food to the north, at night, without a recitation of the Ahunavair*.
3. This, too, that only the soul is constantly desirable for the body, even through this alone, that this perishable body o [is a worldly state of righteousness, and, by rousing up(lâlâ-payamisnih) when thou wouldst sleep on, the righteousness] is on the advance when thou wouldst have retreated; and
1 Av. haurvatât, 'completeness, or health,' and ameretât, immortality;' the archangels who have special charge of water and plants, respectively (see Sls. XV, 25-29), and are said to be injured by the sin of talking while eating and drinking those things (see Chap. IX, 2).
9 Thereby polluting more ground than is necessary (see Sls. X, 5).
* See Chap. XI, 5 n.
• K does not mention the latter sinful action. The reason of the sin of such actions is that they may be considered as offerings to the demons (who are supposed to come from the north and to be powerful at night) unless protected by the Ahunavair (see Bk. VIII, Chap. I, 7) used as an exorcism (see Sd. XXX, 1, 2; Sls. X, 7, XII, 18).
o B has even through the assertion that this is corporeal and perishable.' The passage in brackets occurs only in K.
This appears to be the most probable reading of the word which occurs again in § 5, where it is written lala - û payamisnih in K, which form is also found in Hn. I, 23, where it translates Av. ustryam nô. For the latter member of this compound see also Chap. XX, 6, 7. For the syllable yam we might substitute gam or gam without much alteration of meaning, or even dam if we translate by 'fanning up, exciting.'
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