Sacred Laws of Aryas

SR No.: 007687
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Gorge Buhler
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1897
Total Pages: 1979
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 36 MB

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VENDÎDÂD.
sacrifice 1, there is to it no corruption, no death, no touch of any Nasu3. If it has not been prepared for the sacrifice, [the stem] is defiled the length of four fingers: it shall be laid down on the ground, in the middle of the house, for a year long. When the year is passed, the faithful may drink of its juice at their pleasure, as before.'
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44 (92). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Whither shall we bring, where shall we lay the bodies of the dead", O Ahura Mazda?
45 (93). Ahura Mazda answered: 'On the highest summits, where they know there are always corpse-eating dogs and corpse-eating birds, O holy Zarathustra !
46 (95). 'There shall the worshippers of Mazda fasten the corpse, by the feet and by the hair, with brass, stones, or clay, lest the corpse-eating dogs and the corpse-eating birds shall go and carry the bones to the water and to the trees.
47 (98). 'If they shall not fasten the corpse, so that the corpse-eating dogs and the corpse-eating
1 Pounded and strained.
? Because the Haoma is the plant of life; when strained for the sacrifice, it is the king of healing plants (Bund. XXIV); the dead shall become immortal by tasting of the white Haoma (ib. XXXI). Four fingers from the point touched by the Nasu. That part of the stem shall be cut off (Frâmjî): the rest can be made clean.
• What is left of the stem.
"Perhaps in the ground (it shall be buried).
In places where there are no Dakhmas; for instance, in the country.
T On the top of a mountain' (Comm.)
Cf. VIII, 10.
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