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Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! What part of the water in a pond does the Drug Nasu defile with corruption, infection, and pollution ? 31 (66). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘Six steps on each of the four sides. As long as the corpse has * Ready to help him in case of need. ? ‘Tf he is able to draw out the corpse and does s0, it is a pious deed worth a tanffahr (that is, one by which a tan4fQbr sin can be cancelled) ; if he is able to draw it out and does not do so, it is a tanffohr sin. Gfigésasp says, It is a margarz4n sin (a capital crime) ’ (Comm.) 72 VEND!{DAD. not been taken out of the water, so long shall that water be unclean and unfit to drink. They shall, therefore, take the corpse out of the pond, and lay it down on the dry ground. 32 (69). ‘ And of the water they shall draw off the half, or the third, or the fourth, or the fifth part, according as they are able or not; and after the corpse has been taken out and the water has been drawn off, the rest of the water is clean, and both cattle and men may drink of it at their pleasure, as before.’ 33 (72). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! What part of the water in a well does the Drug Nasu defile with corruption, infection, and pollution ? 34 (73). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘As long as the corpse has not been taken out of the water, so long shall that water be unclean and unfit to drink. They shall, therefore, take the corpse out of the well, and lay it down on the dry ground. 35 (73). ‘And of the water in the well they shall draw off the half, or the third, or the fourth, or the fifth part, according as they are able or not; and after the corpse has been taken out and the water has been drawn off, the rest of the water is clean, and both cattle and men may drink of it at their pleasure, as before.’ 36 (74). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! What part of a sheet of snow or hail does the Drug Nasu defile with corruption, infection, and pollution ? 37 (75). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘Three steps? 1 Nine feet on the four sides. FARGARD VI. 73 on each of the four sides. As long as the corpse has not been taken out of the water, so long shall that water be unclean and unfit to drink. They shall, therefore, take the corpse out of the water, and lay it down on the dry ground. 38 (78). ‘After the corpse has been taken out, and the snow or the hail has melted, the water is clean, and both cattle and men may drink of it at their pleasure, as before.’ 39 (79). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! What part of the water of a running stream does the Drug Nasu defile with corruption, infection, and pollution ? 40 (80). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘Three steps down the stream, nine steps up the stream, six steps across. As long as the corpse has not been taken out of the water, so long shall the water be unclean and unfit to drink. They shall, therefore, take the corpse out of the water, and lay it down on the dry ground,
2As long as the corpse has not been taken out of the water, so long shall the water be unclean and unfit to drink. They shall, therefore, take the corpse out of the water, and lay it down on the dry ground, 41 (83). ‘After the corpse has been taken out and the stream has flowed three times!, the water is clean, and both cattle and men may drink of it at their pleasure, as before.’ IV. 42 (84). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Can the Haoma that has been touched with Nasu from a dead dog, or from a dead man, be made clean again ? 43 (85). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘It can, O holy Zarathustra! If it has been prepared for the } Three times the measure up the stream (that is nine feet). 74 VEND{DAD. sacrifice}, there is to it no corruption, no death, no touch of any Nasu. If it has not been prepared for the sacrifice, [the stem] is defiled the length of four fingers *®: it‘ shall be laid down on‘ the ground, in the middle of the house, for a year long. When the year is passed, the faithful may drink of its juice at their pleasure, as before.’ V. 44 (92). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Whither shall we bring, where shall we lay the bodies of the dead *, O Ahura Mazda ? 45 (93). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘On the highest summits’, where they know there are always corpse-eating dogs and corpse-eating birds, O holy Zarathustra ! 46 (95). ‘There shall the worshippers of Mazda fasten the corpse, by the feet and by the hair, with brass, stones, or clay, lest the corpse-eating dogs and the corpse-eating birds shall go and carry the bones to the water and to the trees. 47 (98). ‘If they shall not fasten the corpse, so that the corpse-eating dogs and the corpse-eating ? Pounded and strained. * Because the Haoma is the plant of life ; when strained for the sacrifice, it is the king of healing plants (Bund. XXIV); the dead shall become immortal by tasting of the white Haoma (ib. XXXI). ® Four fingers from the point touched by the Nasu. That part of the stem shall be cut off (Framjf): the rest can be made clean. “ What is left of the stem. 5 Perhaps: in the ground (it shall be buried). * In places where there are no Dakhmas; for instance, in the country. 7 «On the top of a mountain’ (Comm.) Cf. VIII, ro. FARGARD VI. 75 birds may go and carry the bones to the water and to the trees, what is the penalty that they shall pay ?’ 48 (100). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘They shall be Peshétanus: two hundred stripes with the Aspahé-astra, two hundred stripes with the Sraoshé- Aarana.’ 49 (101). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Whither shall we bring, where shall we lay the bones! of the dead, O Ahura Mazda ? 50 (102). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘The worshippers of Mazda shall make a receptacle? out of the reach of the dog, of the fox, and of the wolf, and wherein rain-water cannot stay.
3Whither shall we bring, where shall we lay the bones! of the dead, O Ahura Mazda ? 50 (102). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘The worshippers of Mazda shall make a receptacle? out of the reach of the dog, of the fox, and of the wolf, and wherein rain-water cannot stay. 51 (105). ‘ They shall make it, if they can afford it, with stones, plaster, or earth®; if they cannot afford it, they shall lay down the dead man on the ground, on his carpet and his pillow, clothed with the light of heaven, and beholding the sun ‘*.’ 1 When the flesh has been stripped off the bones, they may be collected in a stone ossuary. See following note. * “When the corpse-eating birds have eaten the fat, that fat which, when it is not possible to eat it, becomes rotten, offensive, and fraught with noxious creatures, then men shall properly convey the bones away to the bone-receptacle (ast6d4n), which one is to elevate so from the ground, and over which a roof so stands, that in no way does the rain fall upon the dead matter, nor the water reach up to it therein, nor are the dog and fox able to go to it, and for the sake of light coming to it a hole is made therein’ (DAdistén XVIII, 3; tr. West). % Such stone ossuaries have been found at Bushir, by Mr. Malcolm; earth ossuaries, found at Susa, were brought to the Louvre by M. Dieulafoy. ‘ The dead must see the sun: that is why the astédan has holes for letting the light in (see note 2 above). 76 VEND{DAD. Farcarp VII. I (1-5). How long after death the Drug Nasu takes possession of the corpse. II (6-9 = V, 27-30). How far the defiling power of the Drug Nasu extends. III (10-22). Cleansing of clothes defiled by the dead. IV (23-24). Eating of Nasu an abomination. V (25-27). Bringing Nasu to fire or water an abomination. VI (28-35). Cleansing of wood and corn defiled by the dead. VII a (36-40). Physicians; their probation. VII b (41-44). Their fees. VIII (45-59). Purification of the earth, of the Dakhmas. The Dakhmas and the Daévas. IX (60-72 ; 66-69 = V, 45-54). Treatment of a woman who has brought forth a still-born child. X (73-75). Cleansing of vessels defiled by the dead. XI _ (76). Cleansing of the cow. XII (78). Unclean libations. This chapter would offer tolerable unity, but for a digression on medicine, which would be better placed as an introduction to the last three chapters. Sections IJ and IX, parts of which have already been found in Fargard V, are more suitably placed here. This chapter, as a whole, deals with the action of the Drug Nasu, from the moment she takes hold of the corpse, and shows how and when the several objects she has defiled become clean, namely, clothes, wood, corn, earth, women, vessels, and cows. I. 1. Zarathustra asked Ahura Mazda: ‘O Ahura Mazda, most beneficent Spirit, Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! When a man dies, at what moment does the Drug Nasu rush upon him ?’
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.
1O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! What part of the water in a pond does the Drug Nasu defile with corruption, infection, and pollution ? 31 (66). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘Six steps on each of the four sides. As long as the corpse has * Ready to help him in case of need. ? ‘Tf he is able to draw out the corpse and does s0, it is a pious deed worth a tanffahr (that is, one by which a tan4fQbr sin can be cancelled) ; if he is able to draw it out and does not do so, it is a tanffohr sin. Gfigésasp says, It is a margarz4n sin (a capital crime) ’ (Comm.) 72 VEND!{DAD. not been taken out of the water, so long shall that water be unclean and unfit to drink. They shall, therefore, take the corpse out of the pond, and lay it down on the dry ground. 32 (69). ‘ And of the water they shall draw off the half, or the third, or the fourth, or the fifth part, according as they are able or not; and after the corpse has been taken out and the water has been drawn off, the rest of the water is clean, and both cattle and men may drink of it at their pleasure, as before.’ 33 (72). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! What part of the water in a well does the Drug Nasu defile with corruption, infection, and pollution ? 34 (73). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘As long as the corpse has not been taken out of the water, so long shall that water be unclean and unfit to drink. They shall, therefore, take the corpse out of the well, and lay it down on the dry ground. 35 (73). ‘And of the water in the well they shall draw off the half, or the third, or the fourth, or the fifth part, according as they are able or not; and after the corpse has been taken out and the water has been drawn off, the rest of the water is clean, and both cattle and men may drink of it at their pleasure, as before.’ 36 (74). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! What part of a sheet of snow or hail does the Drug Nasu defile with corruption, infection, and pollution ? 37 (75). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘Three steps? 1 Nine feet on the four sides. FARGARD VI. 73 on each of the four sides. As long as the corpse has not been taken out of the water, so long shall that water be unclean and unfit to drink. They shall, therefore, take the corpse out of the water, and lay it down on the dry ground. 38 (78). ‘After the corpse has been taken out, and the snow or the hail has melted, the water is clean, and both cattle and men may drink of it at their pleasure, as before.’ 39 (79). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! What part of the water of a running stream does the Drug Nasu defile with corruption, infection, and pollution ? 40 (80). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘Three steps down the stream, nine steps up the stream, six steps across. As long as the corpse has not been taken out of the water, so long shall the water be unclean and unfit to drink. They shall, therefore, take the corpse out of the water, and lay it down on the dry ground,
2As long as the corpse has not been taken out of the water, so long shall the water be unclean and unfit to drink. They shall, therefore, take the corpse out of the water, and lay it down on the dry ground, 41 (83). ‘After the corpse has been taken out and the stream has flowed three times!, the water is clean, and both cattle and men may drink of it at their pleasure, as before.’ IV. 42 (84). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Can the Haoma that has been touched with Nasu from a dead dog, or from a dead man, be made clean again ? 43 (85). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘It can, O holy Zarathustra! If it has been prepared for the } Three times the measure up the stream (that is nine feet). 74 VEND{DAD. sacrifice}, there is to it no corruption, no death, no touch of any Nasu. If it has not been prepared for the sacrifice, [the stem] is defiled the length of four fingers *®: it‘ shall be laid down on‘ the ground, in the middle of the house, for a year long. When the year is passed, the faithful may drink of its juice at their pleasure, as before.’ V. 44 (92). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Whither shall we bring, where shall we lay the bodies of the dead *, O Ahura Mazda ? 45 (93). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘On the highest summits’, where they know there are always corpse-eating dogs and corpse-eating birds, O holy Zarathustra ! 46 (95). ‘There shall the worshippers of Mazda fasten the corpse, by the feet and by the hair, with brass, stones, or clay, lest the corpse-eating dogs and the corpse-eating birds shall go and carry the bones to the water and to the trees. 47 (98). ‘If they shall not fasten the corpse, so that the corpse-eating dogs and the corpse-eating ? Pounded and strained. * Because the Haoma is the plant of life ; when strained for the sacrifice, it is the king of healing plants (Bund. XXIV); the dead shall become immortal by tasting of the white Haoma (ib. XXXI). ® Four fingers from the point touched by the Nasu. That part of the stem shall be cut off (Framjf): the rest can be made clean. “ What is left of the stem. 5 Perhaps: in the ground (it shall be buried). * In places where there are no Dakhmas; for instance, in the country. 7 «On the top of a mountain’ (Comm.) Cf. VIII, ro. FARGARD VI. 75 birds may go and carry the bones to the water and to the trees, what is the penalty that they shall pay ?’ 48 (100). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘They shall be Peshétanus: two hundred stripes with the Aspahé-astra, two hundred stripes with the Sraoshé- Aarana.’ 49 (101). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Whither shall we bring, where shall we lay the bones! of the dead, O Ahura Mazda ? 50 (102). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘The worshippers of Mazda shall make a receptacle? out of the reach of the dog, of the fox, and of the wolf, and wherein rain-water cannot stay.
3Whither shall we bring, where shall we lay the bones! of the dead, O Ahura Mazda ? 50 (102). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘The worshippers of Mazda shall make a receptacle? out of the reach of the dog, of the fox, and of the wolf, and wherein rain-water cannot stay. 51 (105). ‘ They shall make it, if they can afford it, with stones, plaster, or earth®; if they cannot afford it, they shall lay down the dead man on the ground, on his carpet and his pillow, clothed with the light of heaven, and beholding the sun ‘*.’ 1 When the flesh has been stripped off the bones, they may be collected in a stone ossuary. See following note. * “When the corpse-eating birds have eaten the fat, that fat which, when it is not possible to eat it, becomes rotten, offensive, and fraught with noxious creatures, then men shall properly convey the bones away to the bone-receptacle (ast6d4n), which one is to elevate so from the ground, and over which a roof so stands, that in no way does the rain fall upon the dead matter, nor the water reach up to it therein, nor are the dog and fox able to go to it, and for the sake of light coming to it a hole is made therein’ (DAdistén XVIII, 3; tr. West). % Such stone ossuaries have been found at Bushir, by Mr. Malcolm; earth ossuaries, found at Susa, were brought to the Louvre by M. Dieulafoy. ‘ The dead must see the sun: that is why the astédan has holes for letting the light in (see note 2 above). 76 VEND{DAD. Farcarp VII. I (1-5). How long after death the Drug Nasu takes possession of the corpse. II (6-9 = V, 27-30). How far the defiling power of the Drug Nasu extends. III (10-22). Cleansing of clothes defiled by the dead. IV (23-24). Eating of Nasu an abomination. V (25-27). Bringing Nasu to fire or water an abomination. VI (28-35). Cleansing of wood and corn defiled by the dead. VII a (36-40). Physicians; their probation. VII b (41-44). Their fees. VIII (45-59). Purification of the earth, of the Dakhmas. The Dakhmas and the Daévas. IX (60-72 ; 66-69 = V, 45-54). Treatment of a woman who has brought forth a still-born child. X (73-75). Cleansing of vessels defiled by the dead. XI _ (76). Cleansing of the cow. XII (78). Unclean libations. This chapter would offer tolerable unity, but for a digression on medicine, which would be better placed as an introduction to the last three chapters. Sections IJ and IX, parts of which have already been found in Fargard V, are more suitably placed here. This chapter, as a whole, deals with the action of the Drug Nasu, from the moment she takes hold of the corpse, and shows how and when the several objects she has defiled become clean, namely, clothes, wood, corn, earth, women, vessels, and cows. I. 1. Zarathustra asked Ahura Mazda: ‘O Ahura Mazda, most beneficent Spirit, Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! When a man dies, at what moment does the Drug Nasu rush upon him ?’
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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