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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V, 77
CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAW.
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his garment, or by his hand, he shall pay ten Panas as a fine.
66. If he causes pain to him, without fetching blood from him, (he shall pay) thirty-two Panas;
67. For fetching blood from him, sixty-four.
68. For mutilating or injuring a hand, or a foot, or a tooth, and for slitting an ear, or the nose, the second amercement (is ordained). . 69. For rendering a man unable to move about, or to eat, or to speak, or for striking him (violently, the same punishment is ordained).
70. For wounding or breaking an eye, or the neck, or an arm, or a bone, or a shoulder, the highest amercement (is ordained).
71. For striking out both eyes of a man, the king shall (confine him and) not dismiss him from jail as long as he lives;
72. Or he shall order him to be mutilated in the same way (i. e. deprived of his eyes).
73. Where one is attacked by many, the punishment for each shall be the double of that which has been ordained for (attacks by) a single person.
74. (The double punishment is) likewise (ordained) for those who do not give assistance to one calling for help, though they happen to be on the spot, or (who run away) after having approached it.
75. All those who have hurt a man, shall pay the expense of his cure.
76. Those who have hurt a domestic animal (shall also pay the expense of his cure).
77. He who has stolen a cow, or a horse, or a camel, or an elephant, shall have one hand, or one foot, cut off ;
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