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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IX, 13.
ORDEALS.
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2. In cases of a criminal action directed against the king, or of violence? (they may be administered) indiscriminately.
3. In cases of (denial of) a deposit or of (alleged) theft or robbery they must be administered each according to the value (of the property claimed).
4. In all such cases the value (of the object claimed) must be estimated in gold.
5. Now if its value amounts to less than one Krishnala, a Sadra must be made to swear by a blade of Darvâ grass, (which he must hold in his hand);
6. If it amounts to less than two Krishnalas, by a blade of Tila ;
7. If it amounts to less than three Krishnalas, by a blade of silver;
8. If it amounts to less than four Krishnalas, by a blade of gold;
9. If it amounts to less than five Krishnalas, by a lump of earth taken from a furrow;
10. If it amounts to less than half a Suvarna, a Sadra must be made to undergo the ordeal by sacred libation;
II. If it exceeds that amount, (the judge must administer to him) any one of the (other) ordeals, viz. the ordeal by the balance, by fire, by water, or by poison, considering duly (the season, &c.)
12. If the amount (of the matter in contest) is twice as high (as in each of the last-mentioned cases), a Vaisya must in each case) undergo that ordeal which has (just) been ordained (for a Sadra);
13. A Kshatriya (must undergo the same ordeals), if the amount is thrice as high ;
2. 1 See VIII, 2, note.
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