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1‘Then the worshippers of Mazda may at their will bring by those ways sheep and oxen, men and women, and Fire, the son of Ahura Mazda, the consecrated bundles of Baresma, and the faithful. 1 Yasna XLVI, 7. * I have no protection to expect but from my virtue (Vohu-mané, ‘Good Thought’) and from thy fire, which in the fire ordeal (Var Nfrang) will show my innocence. * That is to say, one must take Religion as one’s rule, * Yasna XLIV,16. This stanza, which in the original Gatha refers to the human incarnation of Sraosha, that is to say, to king Vist&spa, the victorious protector of the Prophet and his Religion, is applied here to the god Sraosha, as a protector of the soul in its passage from this world to the other (Farg. VII, 52). 102 VENDIDAD. ‘The worshippers of Mazda may afterwards! prepare meals with meat and wine in that house; it shall be clean, and there will be no sin, as before.’ IV. 23 (65). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Ifa man shall throw clothes, either of skin or woven, upon a dead body ?, enough to cover the feet, what is the penalty that he shall pay *? Ahura Mazda answered : ‘Four hundred stripes with the Aspahé-astra, four hundred stripes with the Sraoshé-£arana.’ 24 (68). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If a man shall throw clothes, either of skin or woven, upon a dead body, enough to cover both legs, what is the penalty that he shall pay? Ahura Mazda answered: ‘Six hundred stripes with the Aspahé-astra, six hundred stripes with the Sraoshé-Aarana.’ 25 (78). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Ifa man shall throw clothes, either of skin or woven, upon a dead body, enough to cover the whole body, what is the penalty that he shall pay? Ahura Mazda answered: ‘A thousand stripes 1‘On the fourth day. For three days and nights after the death it is forbidden to cook meat in the house (Comm.) * The dead must be stripped of his clothes and is exposed on the heights ‘clothed with the light of heaven’ (Farg. VI, 51).—The modern use is to have him wrapped in a shroud as old and as much worn out as possible (Farg. V, 61). * See Farg. V, 60; VII, 20. ~~ FARGARD VIII. 103 with the Aspahé-astra, a thousand stripes with the Sraosh6-£arana.’ V. 26 (74). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If a man, by force, commits the unnatural sin, what is the penalty that he shall pay ? . Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ Eight hundred stripes with the Aspahé-astra, eight hundred stripes with the Sraoshé-éarana.’ 27 (77). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If a man voluntarily commits the unnatural sin, what is the penalty for it? What is the atonement for it? What is the cleansing from it? Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ For that deed there is nothing that can pay, nothing that can atone, nothing that can cleanse from it; it is a trespass for which there is no atonement, for ever and ever.’ 28 (83)'. When is it so?
2What is the atonement for it? What is the cleansing from it? Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ For that deed there is nothing that can pay, nothing that can atone, nothing that can cleanse from it; it is a trespass for which there is no atonement, for ever and ever.’ 28 (83)'. When is it so? ‘It is so, if the sinner be a professor of the Religion of Mazda, or one who has been taught in it. ‘But if he be not a professor of the Religion of Mazda, nor one who has been taught in it, then his sin is taken from him, if he makes confession of the Religion of Mazda and resolves never to commit again such forbidden deeds. 29 (88). ‘The Religion of Mazda indeed, O Spitama Zarathustra! takes away from him who makes confession of it the bonds of his sin; it takes away (the sin of) breach of trust; it takes away (the sin of) murdering one of the faithful; it takes away (the sin of) burying a corpse ; it takes away (the sin of) deeds for which there is no atonement ; it takes away the worst sin of usury ; it takes away any sin that may be sinned. 2 See Farg. III, 38-42, text and notes. 104 veND{DAD. 30 (95). ‘In the same way the Religion of Mazda, O Spitama Zarathustra! cleanses the faithful from every evil thought, word, and deed, as a swift-rushing mighty wind cleanses the plain. *So let all the deeds he doeth be henceforth good, O Zarathustra! a full atonement for his sin is effected by means of the Religion of Mazda,’ 31 (98). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Who is the man that is a Daéva? Who is he that is a worshipper of the Daévas ? that is a male paramour of the Daévas? that is a female paramour of the Daévas? that is a wife to the Daéva!? that is as bad as a Daéva? that is in his whole being a Daéva? Who is he that is a Daéva before he dies, and becomes one of the unseen Daévas after death 2? 32 (102). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘The man that lies with mankind as man lies with womankind, or as woman lies with mankind, is the man that is a Daéva; this one is the man that is a worshipper of the Daévas, that is a male paramour of the Daévas, that is-a female paramour’ of the Daévas, that is a wife to the Daéva; this is the man that is as bad as a Da€va, that is in his whole being a Daéva; this is the man that is a Daéva before he dies, and becomes one of the unseen Daévas after death: so is he, whether he has lain with mankind as mankind, or as womankind *,’ 1 «Asa wife is obedient to her husband, so is he to the Daévas’ (Comm.) 2? Demons are often the restless souls of the wicked, excluded from heaven. The Persian sect of the Mah4badians believed that the soul that had not spoken and done good became an Ahriman or gin (Dabistan). * The guilty may be killed by any one, without an order from FARGARD VIII. 105 VI. 33 (107). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Shall the man be clean who has touched a corpse that has been dried up and dead more than a year!?
3* The guilty may be killed by any one, without an order from FARGARD VIII. 105 VI. 33 (107). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Shall the man be clean who has touched a corpse that has been dried up and dead more than a year!? 34 (108). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘He shall. The dry mingles not with the dry*. Should the dry mingle with the dry, how soon all this material world of mine would be only one Peshétanu, bent on the destruction of righteousness, and whose soul will cry and wail! so numberless are the beings that die upon the face of the earth %,’ VII. 35 (111). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Can the man be made clean that has the Dastur (see § 74 n.), and by this execution an ordinary capital crime may be redeemed (Comm. ad VII, 52). ? The corpse, dried up, contains no longer any of the solid and liquid elements that generate corruption and infection (see above, Pp. 75, 0. 2). * This principle still prevails even with Musulman Persians: ‘ Pour encourir leur immondicité dans l’attouchement des Chrétiens et autres idolatres, il est nécessaire que s'ils les touchent, leurs vétements soient mouillés. C’est 4 cause, disent-ils, qu’étans secs Yimmondicité ne s’attache pas; . . . . ce qui est cause que dans les villes od leurs Mullas et Docteurs ont plus d’autorité, ils font parfois défendre par leurs Kans que lorsqu’il pleut, les Chrétiens ne sortent pas de leurs maisons, de crainte que par accident, venans 4 les heurter, ils ne soient rendus immondes’ (G. du Chinon, p. 88 seq.; cf. Chardin). Still nowadays, in Persia, the Jews are not allowed to go out of their house on a rainy day, lest the religious impurity, conducted through the rain, should pass from the Jew to the Musulman. * See Farg. V, 4. 106 VENDIDAD. touched the corpse of a dog or the corpse of a man ? 36 (113). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘He can, O holy Zarathustra!’ How so? ‘If the Nasu has already been expelled by the corpse-eating dogs, or by the corpse-eating birds, he shall cleanse his body with géméz and water, and he shall be clean}. 37 (117). ‘If the Nasu has not yet been expelled by the corpse-eating dogs, or by the corpse-eating birds?, then the worshippers of Mazda shall dig three holes in the ground, and he shall thereupon wash his body with géméz, not with water. They shall then lift and bring my dog‘, they shall bring him (thus shall it be done and not otherwise) in front [of the man]®. 38 (121). ‘The worshippers of Mazda shall dig three other holes * in the ground, and he shall thereupon wash his body with géméz, not with water. They shall then lift and bring my dog, they shall bring him (thus shall it be done and not otherwise) in front [of the man]. Then shall they wait until he 1 If the Sag-dtd has been performed, a simple ghosel is enough. Cf. Farg. VII, 29, notes x and 5. 3 If the Sag-did has not been performed, the Barashnfim is necessary.
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.
1‘Then the worshippers of Mazda may at their will bring by those ways sheep and oxen, men and women, and Fire, the son of Ahura Mazda, the consecrated bundles of Baresma, and the faithful. 1 Yasna XLVI, 7. * I have no protection to expect but from my virtue (Vohu-mané, ‘Good Thought’) and from thy fire, which in the fire ordeal (Var Nfrang) will show my innocence. * That is to say, one must take Religion as one’s rule, * Yasna XLIV,16. This stanza, which in the original Gatha refers to the human incarnation of Sraosha, that is to say, to king Vist&spa, the victorious protector of the Prophet and his Religion, is applied here to the god Sraosha, as a protector of the soul in its passage from this world to the other (Farg. VII, 52). 102 VENDIDAD. ‘The worshippers of Mazda may afterwards! prepare meals with meat and wine in that house; it shall be clean, and there will be no sin, as before.’ IV. 23 (65). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Ifa man shall throw clothes, either of skin or woven, upon a dead body ?, enough to cover the feet, what is the penalty that he shall pay *? Ahura Mazda answered : ‘Four hundred stripes with the Aspahé-astra, four hundred stripes with the Sraoshé-£arana.’ 24 (68). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If a man shall throw clothes, either of skin or woven, upon a dead body, enough to cover both legs, what is the penalty that he shall pay? Ahura Mazda answered: ‘Six hundred stripes with the Aspahé-astra, six hundred stripes with the Sraoshé-Aarana.’ 25 (78). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Ifa man shall throw clothes, either of skin or woven, upon a dead body, enough to cover the whole body, what is the penalty that he shall pay? Ahura Mazda answered: ‘A thousand stripes 1‘On the fourth day. For three days and nights after the death it is forbidden to cook meat in the house (Comm.) * The dead must be stripped of his clothes and is exposed on the heights ‘clothed with the light of heaven’ (Farg. VI, 51).—The modern use is to have him wrapped in a shroud as old and as much worn out as possible (Farg. V, 61). * See Farg. V, 60; VII, 20. ~~ FARGARD VIII. 103 with the Aspahé-astra, a thousand stripes with the Sraosh6-£arana.’ V. 26 (74). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If a man, by force, commits the unnatural sin, what is the penalty that he shall pay ? . Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ Eight hundred stripes with the Aspahé-astra, eight hundred stripes with the Sraoshé-éarana.’ 27 (77). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If a man voluntarily commits the unnatural sin, what is the penalty for it? What is the atonement for it? What is the cleansing from it? Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ For that deed there is nothing that can pay, nothing that can atone, nothing that can cleanse from it; it is a trespass for which there is no atonement, for ever and ever.’ 28 (83)'. When is it so?
2What is the atonement for it? What is the cleansing from it? Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ For that deed there is nothing that can pay, nothing that can atone, nothing that can cleanse from it; it is a trespass for which there is no atonement, for ever and ever.’ 28 (83)'. When is it so? ‘It is so, if the sinner be a professor of the Religion of Mazda, or one who has been taught in it. ‘But if he be not a professor of the Religion of Mazda, nor one who has been taught in it, then his sin is taken from him, if he makes confession of the Religion of Mazda and resolves never to commit again such forbidden deeds. 29 (88). ‘The Religion of Mazda indeed, O Spitama Zarathustra! takes away from him who makes confession of it the bonds of his sin; it takes away (the sin of) breach of trust; it takes away (the sin of) murdering one of the faithful; it takes away (the sin of) burying a corpse ; it takes away (the sin of) deeds for which there is no atonement ; it takes away the worst sin of usury ; it takes away any sin that may be sinned. 2 See Farg. III, 38-42, text and notes. 104 veND{DAD. 30 (95). ‘In the same way the Religion of Mazda, O Spitama Zarathustra! cleanses the faithful from every evil thought, word, and deed, as a swift-rushing mighty wind cleanses the plain. *So let all the deeds he doeth be henceforth good, O Zarathustra! a full atonement for his sin is effected by means of the Religion of Mazda,’ 31 (98). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Who is the man that is a Daéva? Who is he that is a worshipper of the Daévas ? that is a male paramour of the Daévas? that is a female paramour of the Daévas? that is a wife to the Daéva!? that is as bad as a Daéva? that is in his whole being a Daéva? Who is he that is a Daéva before he dies, and becomes one of the unseen Daévas after death 2? 32 (102). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘The man that lies with mankind as man lies with womankind, or as woman lies with mankind, is the man that is a Daéva; this one is the man that is a worshipper of the Daévas, that is a male paramour of the Daévas, that is-a female paramour’ of the Daévas, that is a wife to the Daéva; this is the man that is as bad as a Da€va, that is in his whole being a Daéva; this is the man that is a Daéva before he dies, and becomes one of the unseen Daévas after death: so is he, whether he has lain with mankind as mankind, or as womankind *,’ 1 «Asa wife is obedient to her husband, so is he to the Daévas’ (Comm.) 2? Demons are often the restless souls of the wicked, excluded from heaven. The Persian sect of the Mah4badians believed that the soul that had not spoken and done good became an Ahriman or gin (Dabistan). * The guilty may be killed by any one, without an order from FARGARD VIII. 105 VI. 33 (107). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Shall the man be clean who has touched a corpse that has been dried up and dead more than a year!?
3* The guilty may be killed by any one, without an order from FARGARD VIII. 105 VI. 33 (107). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Shall the man be clean who has touched a corpse that has been dried up and dead more than a year!? 34 (108). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘He shall. The dry mingles not with the dry*. Should the dry mingle with the dry, how soon all this material world of mine would be only one Peshétanu, bent on the destruction of righteousness, and whose soul will cry and wail! so numberless are the beings that die upon the face of the earth %,’ VII. 35 (111). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Can the man be made clean that has the Dastur (see § 74 n.), and by this execution an ordinary capital crime may be redeemed (Comm. ad VII, 52). ? The corpse, dried up, contains no longer any of the solid and liquid elements that generate corruption and infection (see above, Pp. 75, 0. 2). * This principle still prevails even with Musulman Persians: ‘ Pour encourir leur immondicité dans l’attouchement des Chrétiens et autres idolatres, il est nécessaire que s'ils les touchent, leurs vétements soient mouillés. C’est 4 cause, disent-ils, qu’étans secs Yimmondicité ne s’attache pas; . . . . ce qui est cause que dans les villes od leurs Mullas et Docteurs ont plus d’autorité, ils font parfois défendre par leurs Kans que lorsqu’il pleut, les Chrétiens ne sortent pas de leurs maisons, de crainte que par accident, venans 4 les heurter, ils ne soient rendus immondes’ (G. du Chinon, p. 88 seq.; cf. Chardin). Still nowadays, in Persia, the Jews are not allowed to go out of their house on a rainy day, lest the religious impurity, conducted through the rain, should pass from the Jew to the Musulman. * See Farg. V, 4. 106 VENDIDAD. touched the corpse of a dog or the corpse of a man ? 36 (113). Ahura Mazda answered: ‘He can, O holy Zarathustra!’ How so? ‘If the Nasu has already been expelled by the corpse-eating dogs, or by the corpse-eating birds, he shall cleanse his body with géméz and water, and he shall be clean}. 37 (117). ‘If the Nasu has not yet been expelled by the corpse-eating dogs, or by the corpse-eating birds?, then the worshippers of Mazda shall dig three holes in the ground, and he shall thereupon wash his body with géméz, not with water. They shall then lift and bring my dog‘, they shall bring him (thus shall it be done and not otherwise) in front [of the man]®. 38 (121). ‘The worshippers of Mazda shall dig three other holes * in the ground, and he shall thereupon wash his body with géméz, not with water. They shall then lift and bring my dog, they shall bring him (thus shall it be done and not otherwise) in front [of the man]. Then shall they wait until he 1 If the Sag-dtd has been performed, a simple ghosel is enough. Cf. Farg. VII, 29, notes x and 5. 3 If the Sag-did has not been performed, the Barashnfim is necessary.
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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