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Modi J.J. quotes the translation of Cama K.R. of Rapp's
German Article on Vendidad:
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It would presume little
acquaintance with the peculiarities of the ancient world if we
wished to bring to bear our present notions of decency and
loathsomeness on the customs of old. ... Can we judge now of
the ideas and customs in this fashion from the point of view
of European modern notions? And before we determine to bring
in accord all the customs of the ancient world that were
employed for purifications, to our modern rational, notions,
we might like to be sure what advantage has that blood of an
animal which Moses used, in respect of the purpose in view,
over the urine of an ox! It will not be possible for us
altogether to comprehend the conceptions of the ancient
notions of what is pure and what is not pure and of their
ceremonies in religious purifications, if we do not ascend
to the very origin of all these notions, namely, to the
ancient doctrine of the double creation, that of the pure and
the impure world. That in the purifications so much value is
set on the ox and all that issues out of it, the sacred legends
of the Zend people make it quite comprehensible.... We have
seen that the entire ceremonial law of Zoroaster rests upon
the conception of a pure and impure creation, and therefrom
it follows that the corporeal impurity was just as punishable
and just as abhorrent in the eyes of Ahura Mazda, the pure, as