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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VII, 13.
letters or signs (such as the flourish denoting the word Sri and the like) or documents executed by the same man, by (enquiring into) the probabilities of the case, and by (finding out such writings as show) a mode of writing similar (to that contained in the disputed document).
13. Should the debtor, or creditor, or witness, or scribe be dead, the authenticity of the document has to be ascertained by (comparing with it other) specimens of their handwriting.
VIII.
1. Now follow (the laws regarding) witnesses.
2. The king cannot be (made a witness); nor a learned Brahmana; nor an ascetic; nor a gamester; nor a thief; nor a person not his own master; nor a woman; nor a child; nor a perpetrator of the acts called sâhasa1 (violence); nor one over-aged (or more than eighty years old); nor one intoxicated or insane; nor a man of bad fame; nor an outcast;
VISHNU.
VIII. 2, 3, 5. M.VIII, 64-67; Y. II, 70, 71.4, 5. Gaut. XIII, 5.- 6. M. VIII, 72; Y. II, 72; Gaut. XIII, 9.-8. M. VIII, 62, 63; Y. II, 68, 69; Âpast. II, 11, 29, 7; Gaut. XIII, 2. -9. M. VIII, 77; Y. II, 72.. - 10, 11. Y. II, 17. 14. M. VIII, 81; Âpast. II, 11, 29, 10; Gaut. XIII, 7. 15, 16. M.VIII, 104-106; Y. II, 83. 15. Gaut. XIII, 24.-18. M. VIII, 25, 26; Y. II, 13-15.-19. M. VIII, 87; Y. II, 73; Apast. II, 11, 29, 7; Gaut. XIII, 12. 20-23. M. VIII, 88. 24-26. M.VIII, 89, 90; Y. II, 73-75.37. M. VIII, 107; Y. II, 77; Gaut. XIII, 6. 38. Y. II, 79. 39. M.VIII, 73; Y. II, 78. 40. M. VIII, 117.
2. 1 There are three kinds of sâhasa. (Nand.) They are, in the enumeration of Nârada, 1. spoiling fruits or the like; 2. injuring more valuable articles; 3. offences directed against the life of a human being, and approaching another man's wife. See Nârada XIV, 4-6.
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