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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FRAGMENTS OF THE NASKS.
37. thwãm khratus (?)
38. Which, recited to Mazda, protects the end1. 39 (p. 38). The fire of Ahura Mazda receives food three times in summer, twice in winter 2; thus does the fire of the faithful man 3.
40 (p. 39). Fifteen sheep, their hind-feet.
41 (p. 40). Anywhere in this world.-Whosoever in the bodily world.-Whatsoever of the world of the good principle.
42 (p. 41). kvaiti aêtshaya (K. aêtashaya). 43. As much as twelve steps antare thwãm (?) 44. Twice a Dakhsmaiti is a Yugyasti.
Twice as much as a Hâthra is a Takara ".
45 (p. 42). From the coming of the light.
46 (p. 43). The longest day is the day of twelve Hathras ".
47. The shortest Hâthra is of three words ".
1 This refers perhaps to the Ashem Vohû, which, being recited by a man with his dying breath, saves his soul (Yt. XXI, 15).
The fire is fed three times a day in summer, at the three Gâhs of the day; only twice in winter, as in winter there are only two Gâhs, the Rapithvin being included in Hâvan.
There will be two meals in winter, one in the morning, another in the evening. In summer there is a third meal, at noon (cf. Yasna IX, 11).—The passage thirty-nine is taken from the Sakâtûm Nask (cf. West, Pahlavi Texts, IV, 480).
A Yugyasti being 16,000 paces, a Dakhsmaiti is 8,000 paces (cf. West, ibid. 56, note).
'A Hâthra being 1,000 paces, a Takara is as much as 2,000 paces. • The coming of the light (raokanghãm fragati) is the name of the last watch of the night.
Hâthra is a measure for time as well as for space. 'A summer day (says the Bundahis, XXV, 5) is of twelve hâsars; a winter day is of six hâsars.'
The uses and values of the Hâthra are most diverse: as a measure for short intervals of time, it is the time needed to pronounce three words.
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