The Zend-Avesta, Part I: The Vendîdâd — SBE Vol. 4 (trans. James Darmesteter, 1880)
The translator’s English as printed (James Darmesteter). The original-language text is not held; names are romanised as the translator printed them.
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 first three holes, which contain giméz. For the disposition of the holes, see the following Fargard.
Three times; every time that the unclean one passes from one hole to another (Comm. ad IX, 32).
5 To look at him, or, rather, at the Nasu in him, whilst the priest sings the spells that drive the Nasu.
* Containing g6méz too.
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is dried! even to the last hair on the top of his head.
39 (125). ‘They shall dig three more holes? in the ground, three paces away from the preceding, and he shall thereupon wash his body with water , not with géméz.
40 (127). ‘He shall first wash his hands; if his hands be not first washed, he makes the whole of his body unclean. When he has washed his hands three times, after his hands have been washed, thou shalt sprinkle with water‘ the forepart of his skull 5,’
41 (131). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! When the good waters reach the forepart of the skull, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush °?
* He rubs himself dry with handfuls of dust (see IX, 29 seq.)
* Containing water.
* Asa master does not take away the dunghill from his house with his own hands, but has it taken away by his servants, so the water, being of higher dignity than the géméz, has the worst of the impurity taken by the géméz, and intervenes only when there is nothing left that can attain it (Abalish, tr. Barthelemy, ch. V and note 29).
* The water is shed from a spoon, tied to a long stick, ‘ the stick with nine knots’ (Farg. IX, 14).
* Bareshnfim; from which word the whole of the operation has taken its name.
* The Nasu is expelled symmetrically, from limb to limb, from the right side of the body to the left, from the forepart to the back parts, and she flies, thus pursued, downwards from the top of the head to the tips of the toes. The retreating order of the Nasu is just the reverse of the order in which she invaded the different members of the first man: she entered Gayomart by the little toe of the left foot, then went up to the heart, then to the shoulder, at last to the summit of the head (Gr. Bund.) Death still seizes the foot first.
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Ahura Mazda answered: ‘In front, between the brows, the Drug Nasu rushes.’
42 (134). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! When the good waters reach in front, between the brows, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘On the back part of the skull the Drug Nasu rushes.’
43 (137). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! When the good waters reach the back part of the skull, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘In front, on the jaws, the Drug Nasu rushes.’
44 (140). O Maker of the material world, thou
Holy One! When the good waters reach in front,
on the jaws, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘In front, on the jaws, the Drug Nasu rushes.’
44 (140). O Maker of the material world, thou
Holy One! When the good waters reach in front,
on the jaws, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered : ‘ Upon the right ear the
Drug Nasu rushes.’
45 (143). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! When the good waters reach the right ear, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘Upon the left ear the
Drug Nasu rushes,’
46 (146). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! When the good waters reach the left ear, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered : ‘ Upon the right shoulder the Drug Nasu rushes.’
47 (149). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! When the good waters reach the right shoulder, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered : ‘ Upon the left shoulder the Drug Nasu rushes.’
48 (152). O Maker of the material world, thou
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Holy One! When the good waters reach the left shoulder, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ Upon the right arm-pit the Drug Nasu rushes.’
49 (155). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! When the good waters reach the right arm-pit, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ Upon the left arm-pit the Drug Nasu rushes.’
50 (158). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! When the good waters reach the left arm-pit, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘In front, upon the chest, the Drug Nasu rushes.’
51 (161). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! When the good waters reach the chest in front, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘Upon the back the
Drug Nasu rushes.’
52 (164). O Maker of the material world, thou
Holy One! When the good waters reach the back,
whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ Upon the right nipple the Drug Nasu rushes.’
53 (167). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! When the good waters reach the right nipple, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘Upon the left nipple the Drug Nasu rushes.’
54 (170). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! When the good waters reach the left nipple, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ Upon the right rib the
Drug Nasu rushes,’
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55 (173). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! When the good waters reach the right rib, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ Upon the left rib the
Drug Nasu rushes.’
56 (176). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! When the good waters reach the left rib, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered : ‘ Upon the right hip the
Drug Nasu rushes.’
57 (179). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! When the good waters reach the right hip, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ Upon the left hip the
Drug Nasu rushes.’
Ahura Mazda answered : ‘ Upon the right hip the
Drug Nasu rushes.’
57 (179). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! When the good waters reach the right hip, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ Upon the left hip the
Drug Nasu rushes.’
58 (182). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! When the good waters reach the left hip, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ Upon the sexual parts the Drug Nasu rushes. If the unclean one be a man, thou shalt sprinkle him first behind, then before; if the unclean one be a woman, thou shalt sprinkle her first before, then behind.’
59 (187). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! When the good waters reach the sexual parts, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘Upon the right thigh the Drug Nasu rushes.’
60 (190). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! When the good waters reach the right thigh, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘Upon the left thigh the Drug Nasu rushes.’
61 (193). O Maker of the material world, thou
FARGARD VIII. II!
Holy One! When the good waters reach the left thigh, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘Upon the right knee the Drug Nasu rushes.’
62 (196). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! When the good waters reach the right knee, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered : ‘ Upon the left knee the
Drug Nasu rushes.’
63 (199). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! When the good waters reach the left knee, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ Upon the right leg the
Drug Nasu rushes.’
64 (202). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! When the good waters reach the right leg, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ Upon the left leg the
Drug Nasu rushes.’
65 (205). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! When the good waters reach the left leg, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ Upon the right ankle the Drug Nasu rushes.’
66 (208). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! When the good waters reach the right ankle, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘Upon the left ankle the Drug Nasu rushes.’
67 (211). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! When the good waters reach the left ankle, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ Upon the right instep the Drug Nasu rushes.’
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68 (214). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! When the good waters reach the right instep, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘Upon the left instep the Drug Nasu rushes,’
69 (217). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! When the good waters reach the left instep, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘She turns round under the sole of the foot; it looks like the wing of a fly. ;
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 first three holes, which contain giméz. For the disposition of the holes, see the following Fargard.
Three times; every time that the unclean one passes from one hole to another (Comm. ad IX, 32).
5 To look at him, or, rather, at the Nasu in him, whilst the priest sings the spells that drive the Nasu.
* Containing g6méz too.
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is dried! even to the last hair on the top of his head.
39 (125). ‘They shall dig three more holes? in the ground, three paces away from the preceding, and he shall thereupon wash his body with water , not with géméz.
40 (127). ‘He shall first wash his hands; if his hands be not first washed, he makes the whole of his body unclean. When he has washed his hands three times, after his hands have been washed, you shall sprinkle with water‘ the forepart of his skull 5,’
41 (131). O Maker of the material world, you Holy One! When the good waters reach the forepart of the skull, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush °?
* He rubs himself dry with handfuls of dust (see IX, 29 seq.)
* Containing water.
* Asa master does not take away the dunghill from his house with his own hands, but has it taken away by his servants, so the water, being of higher dignity than the géméz, has the worst of the impurity taken by the géméz, and intervenes only when there is nothing left that can attain it (Abalish, tr. Barthelemy, ch. V and note 29).
* The water is shed from a spoon, tied to a long stick, ‘ the stick with nine knots’ (Farg. IX, 14).
* Bareshnfim; from which word the whole of the operation has taken its name.
* The Nasu is expelled symmetrically, from limb to limb, from the right side of the body to the left, from the forepart to the back parts, and she flies, thus pursued, downwards from the top of the head to the tips of the toes. The retreating order of the Nasu is just the reverse of the order in which she invaded the different members of the first man: she entered Gayomart by the little toe of the left foot, then went up to the heart, then to the shoulder, at last to the summit of the head (Gr. Bund.) Death still seizes the foot first.
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Ahura Mazda answered: ‘In front, between the brows, the Drug Nasu rushes.’
42 (134). O Maker of the material world, you Holy One! When the good waters reach in front, between the brows, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘On the back part of the skull the Drug Nasu rushes.’
43 (137). O Maker of the material world, you Holy One! When the good waters reach the back part of the skull, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘In front, on the jaws, the Drug Nasu rushes.’
44 (140). O Maker of the material world, you
Holy One! When the good waters reach in front,
on the jaws, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘In front, on the jaws, the Drug Nasu rushes.’
44 (140). O Maker of the material world, you
Holy One! When the good waters reach in front,
on the jaws, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered : ‘ Upon the right ear the
Drug Nasu rushes.’
45 (143). O Maker of the material world, you Holy One! When the good waters reach the right ear, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘Upon the left ear the
Drug Nasu rushes,’
46 (146). O Maker of the material world, you Holy One! When the good waters reach the left ear, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered : ‘ Upon the right shoulder the Drug Nasu rushes.’
47 (149). O Maker of the material world, you Holy One! When the good waters reach the right shoulder, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered : ‘ Upon the left shoulder the Drug Nasu rushes.’
48 (152). O Maker of the material world, you
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Holy One! When the good waters reach the left shoulder, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ Upon the right arm-pit the Drug Nasu rushes.’
49 (155). O Maker of the material world, you Holy One! When the good waters reach the right arm-pit, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ Upon the left arm-pit the Drug Nasu rushes.’
50 (158). O Maker of the material world, you Holy One! When the good waters reach the left arm-pit, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘In front, upon the chest, the Drug Nasu rushes.’
51 (161). O Maker of the material world, you Holy One! When the good waters reach the chest in front, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘Upon the back the
Drug Nasu rushes.’
52 (164). O Maker of the material world, you
Holy One! When the good waters reach the back,
whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ Upon the right nipple the Drug Nasu rushes.’
53 (167). O Maker of the material world, you Holy One! When the good waters reach the right nipple, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘Upon the left nipple the Drug Nasu rushes.’
54 (170). O Maker of the material world, you Holy One! When the good waters reach the left nipple, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ Upon the right rib the
Drug Nasu rushes,’
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55 (173). O Maker of the material world, you Holy One! When the good waters reach the right rib, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ Upon the left rib the
Drug Nasu rushes.’
56 (176). O Maker of the material world, you Holy One! When the good waters reach the left rib, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered : ‘ Upon the right hip the
Drug Nasu rushes.’
57 (179). O Maker of the material world, you Holy One! When the good waters reach the right hip, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ Upon the left hip the
Drug Nasu rushes.’
Ahura Mazda answered : ‘ Upon the right hip the
Drug Nasu rushes.’
57 (179). O Maker of the material world, you Holy One! When the good waters reach the right hip, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ Upon the left hip the
Drug Nasu rushes.’
58 (182). O Maker of the material world, you Holy One! When the good waters reach the left hip, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ Upon the sexual parts the Drug Nasu rushes. If the unclean one be a man, you shall sprinkle him first behind, then before; if the unclean one be a woman, you shall sprinkle her first before, then behind.’
59 (187). O Maker of the material world, you Holy One! When the good waters reach the sexual parts, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘Upon the right thigh the Drug Nasu rushes.’
60 (190). O Maker of the material world, you Holy One! When the good waters reach the right thigh, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘Upon the left thigh the Drug Nasu rushes.’
61 (193). O Maker of the material world, you
FARGARD VIII. II!
Holy One! When the good waters reach the left thigh, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘Upon the right knee the Drug Nasu rushes.’
62 (196). O Maker of the material world, you Holy One! When the good waters reach the right knee, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered : ‘ Upon the left knee the
Drug Nasu rushes.’
63 (199). O Maker of the material world, you Holy One! When the good waters reach the left knee, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ Upon the right leg the
Drug Nasu rushes.’
64 (202). O Maker of the material world, you Holy One! When the good waters reach the right leg, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ Upon the left leg the
Drug Nasu rushes.’
65 (205). O Maker of the material world, you Holy One! When the good waters reach the left leg, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ Upon the right ankle the Drug Nasu rushes.’
66 (208). O Maker of the material world, you Holy One! When the good waters reach the right ankle, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘Upon the left ankle the Drug Nasu rushes.’
67 (211). O Maker of the material world, you Holy One! When the good waters reach the left ankle, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ Upon the right instep the Drug Nasu rushes.’
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68 (214). O Maker of the material world, you Holy One! When the good waters reach the right instep, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘Upon the left instep the Drug Nasu rushes,’
69 (217). O Maker of the material world, you Holy One! When the good waters reach the left instep, whereon does the Drug Nasu rush ?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘She turns round under the sole of the foot; it looks like the wing of a fly. ;
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