Vendidad
Americannoun
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These regulations, carried out in long and wearisome detail on the basis of this new movement, are before us in the Vendidad.
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The Vendidad quotes a whole series of lands which Auramazda created good, and enumerates the evils which the deadly Angromainyu brought into each:—into one winter, into another excessive heat; in one case vermin, in another disease, in a third beasts of prey.
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The Vendidad merely says that any one who wishes to perform purifications must have learned the law from one of the purifiers, i. e. it is only the instruction of the priest which is indispensable in this matter.
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The rules concerning purity and purification, the expiations and penances necessary to avert the Daevas, which we possess in the Vendidad of the Avesta, are only the remnant of a far more comprehensive law.
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Evil-speaking and calumny also are, according to the Vendidad, "lies and sins" against Mithra.
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