Zend Avesta Part 01

SR No.: 007671
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Darmesteter
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1895
Total Pages: 2695
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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VENDIDÂD.
an Avaoirista. If he actually smite a man with malicious aforethought, it is an Aredus. Upon the fifth Aredus 1 he becomes a Peshotanus
18 (58). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! He that committeth an Ågerepta, what penalty shall he pay ?
Ahura Mazda answered: 'Five stripes with the Aspahê-astra, five stripes with the Sraoshokarana;
On the second Ågerepta, ten stripes with the Aspahê-astra, ten stripes with the Sraoshokarana ;
On the third, fifteen stripes with the Aspahl-astra, fifteen stripes with the Sraoshô-karana.
19 (63). On the fourth, thirty stripes with the "Aspahê-astra, thirty stripes with the Sraoshô-karana;
On the fifth, fifty stripes with the Aspahe-astra, fifty stripes with the Sraoshó-karana;
On the sixth, sixty stripes with the Aspahê-astra, sixty stripes with the Sraosho-karana;
'On the seventh, ninety stripes with the Aspaheastra, ninety stripes with the Sraoshô-karana.'
20 (67). If a man commit an Ågerepta for the eighth time, without having atoned for the preceding 3, what penalty shall he pay ?
Ahura Mazda answered : 'He is a Peshốtanu : two hundred stripes with the Aspahê-astra, two hundred stripes with the Sraosho-karana.'
but without wounding him, or inflicts a wound which is healed within three days.
1 Viz. on the sixth commission of it, as appears from $ 28.
* He shall receive two hundred stripes, or shall pay 1200 dirhems (see Introd.)
Literally, ' without having undone the preceding.'
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