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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46 (123). Ahura Mazda answered: ' When the corpse of a dead man has lain on the ground for a year, clothed with the light of heaven, and beholding the sun, then the ground is clean again, O holy Zarathustra 1!'
47 (124). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! How long after the corpse of a dead man has been buried in the earth, is the earth clean again?
48 (125). Ahura Mazda answered: When the corpse of a dead man has lain buried in the earth for fifty years, O Spitama Zarathustra! then the earth is clean again 3.'
49 (126). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! How long after the corpse of a dead man has been laid down on a Dakhma, is the ground, whereon the Dakhma stands, clean again?
50 (127). Ahura Mazda answered: 'Not until the dust of the corpse, O Spitama Zarathustra ! has mingled with the dust of the earth. Urge every one in the material world, O Spitama Zarathustra! to pull down Dakhmas".
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51 (129). He who should pull down Dakhmas, even so much thereof as the size of his own body, his sins in thought, word, and deed are remitted as they would be by a Patet; his sins in thought, word, and deed are undone.
52 (132). Not for his soul shall the two spirits
1 See Farg. VI, I seq.
• The time necessary to consume the corpse to its last particle. Cf. Farg. III, 36 seq.
A space of time estimated at fifty years (Comm.) Cf. Farg. III, 13.
Cf. Farg. III, 9, text and note, and § 13. A tanâführ sin is remitted thereby' (Comm.)
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