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'The worshippers of Mazda shall clear the way1 of the wood there, both plants and trees 2;
12 (26). They shall dig three holes in the earth, and they shall wash the woman with gômêz by two of those holes and with water by the third.
They shall kill Khrafstras, to wit: two hundred corn-carrying ants, if it be summer; two hundred of any other sort of the Khrafstras made by Angra Mainyu, if it be winter.'
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III.
13 (30). If a worshipper of Mazda shall suppress the issue of a woman who has the whites or sees blood, what is the penalty that he shall pay ?
Ahura Mazda answered: 'He is a Peshôtanu : two hundred stripes with the Aspahê-astra, two hundred stripes with the Sraoshô-karana.'
14 (33). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If a man shall again and again lasciviously touch the body of a woman who has the whites or sees blood, so that the whites turn to the blood or the blood turns to the whites, what is the penalty that he shall pay ?
15 (36). Ahura Mazda answered: For the first time he comes near unto her, for the first time he lies by her, thirty stripes with the Aspahê-astra, thirty stripes with the Sraoshô-karana.
'For the second time he comes near unto her, for the second time he lies by her, fifty stripes with the Aspahê-astra, fifty stripes with the Sraoshô-karana.
The way to the Barashnûm-gâh, where the cleansing takes
place.
Cf. Farg. XIV, 5
See Farg. IX, 3 seq.
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| SR No. | 007687 |
| Book Title | Sacred Laws of Aryas |
| 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 |