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1On the contrary, when it is a righteous man that dies, the Amshaspands take his soul to Ormazd and the Drug settles in the house of the body and makes it impure’ (Gujastak Abalish). 5 In order to perform a sacrifice. * The Dakhma. 62 VEND{DAD. 42 (129). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘They shall wait for nine nights in winter, for a month in summer, and then they shall bring back the fire to the house wherein the man has died.’ 43 (131). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! And if they shall bring back the fire to the house wherein the man has died, within the nine nights, or within the month, what penalty shall they pay ? 44(134). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ They shall be Peshétanus: two hundred stripes with the Aspahéastra, two hundred stripes with the Sraoshé-Zarana.’ VIII. 45 (135)% O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If in the house of a worshipper of Mazda there be a woman with child, and if being a month gone, or two, or three, or four, or five, or six, or seven, or eight, or nine, or ten months gone §, she bring forth a still-born child, what shall the worshippers of Mazda do? 46 (139). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘The place in that Mazdean house whereof the ground is the cleanest and the driest, and the least passed through by flocks and herds, by the fire of Ahura Mazda, by the consecrated bundles of Baresma, and by the faithful ;’— 47 (143). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! How far from the fire? How far from ? Corruption being worse in summer. * §§ 45-54=Farg. VII, 60-69. * The pregnancy, without lasting more than nine calendar months (9g times 30 days), generally extends along ten months on the calendar (for instance from January 10 to October 10). FARGARD V. 63 the water? How far from the consecrated bundles of Baresma? How far from the faithful ? 48 (144). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ Thirty paces from the fire; thirty paces from the water; thirty paces from the consecrated bundles of Baresma ; three paces from the faithful! ;— 49 (145). ‘On that place shall the worshippers of Mazda erect an enclosure’, and therein shall they establish her with food, therein shall they establish her with clothes.’ 50 (147). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! What is the food that the woman shall first take ? 51 (148). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘Géméz® mixed with ashes, three draughts of it, or six, or nine, to send down the Dakhma within her womb 4, 52 (151). ‘Afterwards she may drink boiling milk of mares, cows, sheep, or goats, with pap or without pap*; she may take cooked milk without 1 The carrier alone is kept thirty feet from the faithful (Farg. III, 18), as he is cut off from the community: his food is not brought to him, he has a store prepared for him. The woman, when armést, is only temporarily isolated; she stays in the house and her food is brought to her all but from hand to hand (Farg. XVI, 6). * The place for the man or woman in state of uncleanness, or Armést-g 4h.
2The woman, when armést, is only temporarily isolated; she stays in the house and her food is brought to her all but from hand to hand (Farg. XVI, 6). * The place for the man or woman in state of uncleanness, or Armést-g 4h. * Urine of the ox: the so-called Nfrang-din; cf. Farg. VIII, 37; XIX, 21. ‘Three cups, or six, or nine, according to her strength’ (Asp.) ‘ Her womb is a Dakhma, as it contained a dead body.—These nine draughts of gé6méz mixed with ashes are like an interior Barashnfim, as the Barashnfim consists of nine successive purifications with géméz and dust. ® Doubtful. ® Doubtful. 64 vEND{DAD. water, meal without water, and wine without water 1.’ 53 (154). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! How long shall she remain so? How long shall she live thus on milk, meal, and wine ? 54 (155). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ Three nights long shall she remain so; three nights long shall she live thus on milk, meal, and wine. Then, when three nights have passed, she shall wash her body, she shall wash her clothes, with géméz and water, by the nine holes %, and thus shall she be clean.’ 55 (157). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! How long shall she remain so? How long, after the three nights have gone, shall she sit confined, and live separated from the rest of the worshippers of Mazda, as to her seat, her food, and her clothing ? 56 (158). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ Nine nights long shall she remain so: nine nights long, after the three nights have gone, shall she sit confined, and live separated from the rest of the worshippers of Mazda, as to her seat, her food, and her clothing. Then, when the nine nights have gone, she shall wash her body, and cleanse her clothes with géméz and water %’ ‘ «The water would be defiled ;’ cf. Farg. VII, 70 seq. * She shall perform the nine nights’ Barashnfm, for the details of which see Farg. IX. That Barashnim is taken forty days after the delivery. 5 «If a woman brings forth a still-born child, after a pregnancy of one month to ten months, the first food she shall take is nfrang (=g6méz)... fire and ashes; and she is not allowed until the fourth day to take water or salt, or any food that is cooked with water or salt: on the fourth day they give her nfrang, that she may cleanse herself and wash her clothes with it, and she is not FARGARD V. 65 57 (160)!. O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Can those clothes, when once washed and cleansed, ever be used either by a Zaotar, or by a HaAvanan, or by an Atare-vakhsha, or by a Frabaretar, or by an Abered, or by an Asnatar, or by a Rathwiskar, or by a Sraosh4-varez?, or by any priest, warrior, or husbandman ® ? 58 (162). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘Never can those clothes, even when washed and cleansed, be used either by a Zaotar, or by a HAvanan, or by an Atare-vakhsha, or by a Frabaretar, or by an Abered, or by an Asnatar, or by a Rathwiskar, or by a Sraosh4-varez, or by any priest, warrior, or husbandman,
358 (162). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘Never can those clothes, even when washed and cleansed, be used either by a Zaotar, or by a HAvanan, or by an Atare-vakhsha, or by a Frabaretar, or by an Abered, or by an Asnatar, or by a Rathwiskar, or by a Sraosh4-varez, or by any priest, warrior, or husbandman, 59 (164). ‘But if there be in a Mazdean house a woman who is in her sickness, or a man who has become unfit for work‘, and who must sit in the place of infirmity®, those clothes shall serve for their allowed to wash herself and her clothes with water until the fortyfirst day’ (Gr. Rav. 568). * §§ 57-62=Farg. VII, 17-22. 2 These are the names of the different priests who were engaged in the sacrifices. The HAvanan strains the Haoma; the Atarevakhsha kindles the fire; the Frabaretar brings to the Zaotar all that he needs; the Abered brings the water; the Asnatar washes and strains the Haoma; the Rathwiskar mixes the Haoma and the milk; the Zaotar chants the hymns and says the prayers; the Sraosh4-varez superintends the sacrifice. Nowadays there are only two priests, the Zaotar (ZAtt) and the Rathwiskar (Raspf), the latter performing all the accessory services formerly performed by several priests. Cf, Nirangistin, §§ 71 sq. * In short, by any of the faithful, when in state of purity. 4 An Armést; literally, ‘an infirm person,’ that is to say, one who is unclean, during the time of his uncleanness (Farg. IX, 33 8eq.), when all work is forbidden to him. 5 The Armést-g4h, the place of seclusion of the Armést. [4] F 66 VENDIDAD. coverings and for their sheets', until they can withdraw their hands for prayer *. 60 (168). ‘Ahura Mazda, indeed, does not allow us to waste anything of value that we may have, not even so much as an Asperena’s* weight of thread, not even so much as a maid lets fall in spinning. 61 (171). ‘ Whosoever throws any clothing on a dead body‘, even so much as a maid lets fall in spinning, is not a pious man whilst alive, nor shall he, when dead, have a place in Paradise. 62 (174). ‘He makes himself a viaticum unto the world of the wicked, into that world®, made of 1 The clothing defiled by the dead can only serve for Dashtén women, even after it has been washed and exposed for six months to the light of the sun and of the moon (Saddar 91; cf. Farg. VI, ‘10 seq.) ? Until they are clean. The unclean must have their hands wrapped in an old piece of linen, lest they should touch and defile anything clean. 5 See Farg. IV, 48, note 4.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1On the contrary, when it is a righteous man that dies, the Amshaspands take his soul to Ormazd and the Drug settles in the house of the body and makes it impure’ (Gujastak Abalish). 5 In order to perform a sacrifice. * The Dakhma. 62 VEND{DAD. 42 (129). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘They shall wait for nine nights in winter, for a month in summer, and then they shall bring back the fire to the house wherein the man has died.’ 43 (131). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! And if they shall bring back the fire to the house wherein the man has died, within the nine nights, or within the month, what penalty shall they pay ? 44(134). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ They shall be Peshétanus: two hundred stripes with the Aspahéastra, two hundred stripes with the Sraoshé-Zarana.’ VIII. 45 (135)% O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If in the house of a worshipper of Mazda there be a woman with child, and if being a month gone, or two, or three, or four, or five, or six, or seven, or eight, or nine, or ten months gone §, she bring forth a still-born child, what shall the worshippers of Mazda do? 46 (139). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘The place in that Mazdean house whereof the ground is the cleanest and the driest, and the least passed through by flocks and herds, by the fire of Ahura Mazda, by the consecrated bundles of Baresma, and by the faithful ;’— 47 (143). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! How far from the fire? How far from ? Corruption being worse in summer. * §§ 45-54=Farg. VII, 60-69. * The pregnancy, without lasting more than nine calendar months (9g times 30 days), generally extends along ten months on the calendar (for instance from January 10 to October 10). FARGARD V. 63 the water? How far from the consecrated bundles of Baresma? How far from the faithful ? 48 (144). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ Thirty paces from the fire; thirty paces from the water; thirty paces from the consecrated bundles of Baresma ; three paces from the faithful! ;— 49 (145). ‘On that place shall the worshippers of Mazda erect an enclosure’, and therein shall they establish her with food, therein shall they establish her with clothes.’ 50 (147). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! What is the food that the woman shall first take ? 51 (148). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘Géméz® mixed with ashes, three draughts of it, or six, or nine, to send down the Dakhma within her womb 4, 52 (151). ‘Afterwards she may drink boiling milk of mares, cows, sheep, or goats, with pap or without pap*; she may take cooked milk without 1 The carrier alone is kept thirty feet from the faithful (Farg. III, 18), as he is cut off from the community: his food is not brought to him, he has a store prepared for him. The woman, when armést, is only temporarily isolated; she stays in the house and her food is brought to her all but from hand to hand (Farg. XVI, 6). * The place for the man or woman in state of uncleanness, or Armést-g 4h.
2The woman, when armést, is only temporarily isolated; she stays in the house and her food is brought to her all but from hand to hand (Farg. XVI, 6). * The place for the man or woman in state of uncleanness, or Armést-g 4h. * Urine of the ox: the so-called Nfrang-din; cf. Farg. VIII, 37; XIX, 21. ‘Three cups, or six, or nine, according to her strength’ (Asp.) ‘ Her womb is a Dakhma, as it contained a dead body.—These nine draughts of gé6méz mixed with ashes are like an interior Barashnfim, as the Barashnfim consists of nine successive purifications with géméz and dust. ® Doubtful. ® Doubtful. 64 vEND{DAD. water, meal without water, and wine without water 1.’ 53 (154). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! How long shall she remain so? How long shall she live thus on milk, meal, and wine ? 54 (155). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ Three nights long shall she remain so; three nights long shall she live thus on milk, meal, and wine. Then, when three nights have passed, she shall wash her body, she shall wash her clothes, with géméz and water, by the nine holes %, and thus shall she be clean.’ 55 (157). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! How long shall she remain so? How long, after the three nights have gone, shall she sit confined, and live separated from the rest of the worshippers of Mazda, as to her seat, her food, and her clothing ? 56 (158). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ Nine nights long shall she remain so: nine nights long, after the three nights have gone, shall she sit confined, and live separated from the rest of the worshippers of Mazda, as to her seat, her food, and her clothing. Then, when the nine nights have gone, she shall wash her body, and cleanse her clothes with géméz and water %’ ‘ «The water would be defiled ;’ cf. Farg. VII, 70 seq. * She shall perform the nine nights’ Barashnfm, for the details of which see Farg. IX. That Barashnim is taken forty days after the delivery. 5 «If a woman brings forth a still-born child, after a pregnancy of one month to ten months, the first food she shall take is nfrang (=g6méz)... fire and ashes; and she is not allowed until the fourth day to take water or salt, or any food that is cooked with water or salt: on the fourth day they give her nfrang, that she may cleanse herself and wash her clothes with it, and she is not FARGARD V. 65 57 (160)!. O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Can those clothes, when once washed and cleansed, ever be used either by a Zaotar, or by a HaAvanan, or by an Atare-vakhsha, or by a Frabaretar, or by an Abered, or by an Asnatar, or by a Rathwiskar, or by a Sraosh4-varez?, or by any priest, warrior, or husbandman ® ? 58 (162). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘Never can those clothes, even when washed and cleansed, be used either by a Zaotar, or by a HAvanan, or by an Atare-vakhsha, or by a Frabaretar, or by an Abered, or by an Asnatar, or by a Rathwiskar, or by a Sraosh4-varez, or by any priest, warrior, or husbandman,
358 (162). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘Never can those clothes, even when washed and cleansed, be used either by a Zaotar, or by a HAvanan, or by an Atare-vakhsha, or by a Frabaretar, or by an Abered, or by an Asnatar, or by a Rathwiskar, or by a Sraosh4-varez, or by any priest, warrior, or husbandman, 59 (164). ‘But if there be in a Mazdean house a woman who is in her sickness, or a man who has become unfit for work‘, and who must sit in the place of infirmity®, those clothes shall serve for their allowed to wash herself and her clothes with water until the fortyfirst day’ (Gr. Rav. 568). * §§ 57-62=Farg. VII, 17-22. 2 These are the names of the different priests who were engaged in the sacrifices. The HAvanan strains the Haoma; the Atarevakhsha kindles the fire; the Frabaretar brings to the Zaotar all that he needs; the Abered brings the water; the Asnatar washes and strains the Haoma; the Rathwiskar mixes the Haoma and the milk; the Zaotar chants the hymns and says the prayers; the Sraosh4-varez superintends the sacrifice. Nowadays there are only two priests, the Zaotar (ZAtt) and the Rathwiskar (Raspf), the latter performing all the accessory services formerly performed by several priests. Cf, Nirangistin, §§ 71 sq. * In short, by any of the faithful, when in state of purity. 4 An Armést; literally, ‘an infirm person,’ that is to say, one who is unclean, during the time of his uncleanness (Farg. IX, 33 8eq.), when all work is forbidden to him. 5 The Armést-g4h, the place of seclusion of the Armést. [4] F 66 VENDIDAD. coverings and for their sheets', until they can withdraw their hands for prayer *. 60 (168). ‘Ahura Mazda, indeed, does not allow us to waste anything of value that we may have, not even so much as an Asperena’s* weight of thread, not even so much as a maid lets fall in spinning. 61 (171). ‘ Whosoever throws any clothing on a dead body‘, even so much as a maid lets fall in spinning, is not a pious man whilst alive, nor shall he, when dead, have a place in Paradise. 62 (174). ‘He makes himself a viaticum unto the world of the wicked, into that world®, made of 1 The clothing defiled by the dead can only serve for Dashtén women, even after it has been washed and exposed for six months to the light of the sun and of the moon (Saddar 91; cf. Farg. VI, ‘10 seq.) ? Until they are clean. The unclean must have their hands wrapped in an old piece of linen, lest they should touch and defile anything clean. 5 See Farg. IV, 48, note 4.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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