Author : Friedrich Max Muller
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230734385
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (343 download)
Book Synopsis The Sacred Books of the East Volume 4 by : Friedrich Max Muller
Download or read book The Sacred Books of the East Volume 4 written by Friedrich Max Muller and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...the Bahram fire. The Bahram fire is composed of a thousand and one fires belonging to sixteen different classes (ninety-one corpse-burning fires, eighty dyers' fires, &c.) As the earthly representative of the heavenly fire, it is the sacred centre to which every earthly fire longs to return, in order to be united again, as much as possible, with its native abode. The Ahura Mazda answered: 'His reward shall be the same as if he had, here below, brought ten thousand fire-brands to the Daity6-gatu.' 82 (254). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If a man bring to the Daity6-gatu the fire wherein impure liquid has been burntwhat shall be his reward when his soul has parted with his body? Ahura Mazda answered: 'His reward shall be the same as if he had, here below, brought a thousand fire-brands to the Daity6-gatu. 83 (257). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If a man bring to the Daityo-gatu the fire wherein dung has been burnt2, what shall be his reward when his soul has parted with his body? Ahura Mazda answered: 'His reward shall be the same as if he had, here below, brought five hundred fire-brands to the Daity6-gatu.' 84 (258). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If a man bring to the Daity6-gatu the fire from the kiln of a potter, what shall be his reward when his soul has parted with his body? Ahura Mazda answered: 'His reward shall be the same as if he had, here below, brought four hundred fire-brands to the Daityo-gatu.' more it has been defiled by worldly uses, the greater is the merit acquired by freeing it from defilement. 1 The hlhr, that is to say all sort of impurity that comes from the body. 8 'The fire of a bath, ' according to FrSmjt; the use of the bath was prohibited; according to Josuah the..
