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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FARGARD IV.
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21 (70). If a man commit an Agerepta', and refuse to atone for it?, what penalty shall he pay?
Ahura Mazda answered: 'He is a Peshôtanu : two hundred stripes with the Aspahê-astra, two hundred stripes with the Sraosho-karana.'
22 (73). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If a man commit an Avaoirista, what penalty shall he pay ?
Ahura Mazda answered: Ten stripes with the Aspahe-astra, ten stripes with the Sraoshô-karana ;
On the second Avaoirista, fifteen stripes with the Aspahê-astra, fifteen stripes with the Sraosho-karana.
23 (75). "On the third, thirty stripes with the Aspahê-astra, thirty stripes with the Sraoshô-karana;
'On the fourth, fifty stripes with the Aspahê-astra, fifty stripes with the Sraosho-karana;
'On the fifth, seventy stripes with the Aspahê. astra, seventy stripes with the Sraoshô-karana ;
On the sixth, ninety stripes with the Aspahêastra, ninety stripes with the Sraoshô-karana.'
24 (76). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If a man commit an Avaoirista for the seventh time, without having atoned for the preceding, what penalty shall he pay?
Ahura Mazda answered: He is a Peshôtanu : two hundred stripes with the Aspahê-astra, two hundred stripes with the Sraosho-karana.'
25 (77). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If a man commit an Avaoirista, and refuse to atone for it, what penalty shall he pay?
Even though the Âgerepta has been committed for the first time.
• Literally, and does not undo it. If he does not offer himself to bear the penalty, and does not perform the Patet (see Introd.)
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