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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FARGARD XVIII.
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well-formed Sraosha! He is the first of my males who, being entreated by one of the faithful, does not give him anything, be it ever so little, of the riches he has treasured up?.
35 (82). “That man makes me conceive progeny as other males make their females conceive by their seed.'
36 (83). The holy Sraosha, letting his club down upon her, asked the Drug:'O thou wretched, worthless Drug! What is the thing that can undo that?'
37 (84). The Drug demon answered : 'O holy, well-formed Sraosha! This is the thing that undoes it, namely, when a man unasked, kindly and piously, gives to one of the faithful something, be it ever so little, of the riches he has treasured up.
38 (87). 'He does thereby as thoroughly destroy the fruit of my womb as a four-footed wolf does, who tears the child out of a mother's womb.'
39 (88). The holy Sraosha, letting down his club upon her, asked the Drug: 'Othou wretched, worthless Drug! Who is the second of those males of thine ?'
40 (89). The Drug demon answered : O holy, well-formed Sraosha! He is the second of my males who, making water, lets it fall along the upper forepart of his foot.
41 (92). "That man makes me conceive progeny as other males make their females conceive by their seed.'
42 (93). The holy Sraosha, letting his club down upon her, asked the Drug: 0 thou wretched, worthless Drug! What is the thing that can undo that?'
· Cf. Farg. III, 34.
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