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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XXXVI, 1.
CRIMES.
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stealing the gold of a Brâhmana, and sexual connection with a Guru's wife are high crimes.
2. And social intercourse with such (criminals is also a high crime).
3. He who associates with an outcast is outcasted himself after a year;
4. And so is he who rides in the same carriage with him, or who eats in his company, or who sits on the same bench, or who lies on the same couch with him.
5. Sexual intercourse, intercourse in sacrificing, and intercourse by the mouth (with an outcast) entails immediate loss of caste.
6. Such mortal sinners are purified by a horsesacrifice and by visiting all Tirthas (places of pilgrimage) on earth.
XXXVI. 1. Killing a Kshatriya or Vaisya engaged in a sacrifice, or a woman in her courses, or a pregnant woman, or a woman (of the Brâhmana caste) who has bathed after temporary uncleanness', or an embryo
5. Intercourse of marriage' means sexual connection with an outcasted man or woman, or giving a damsel in marriage to an outcasted man. Intercourse in sacrificing' means sacrificing for, or with, an outcast. Mouthly intercourse' means teaching, or being taught by, or studying together with, an outcast. The present rule holds good in cases of voluntary intercourse only; if the intercourse was involuntary, the loss of caste does not follow till after a year. Others assert that the immediate loss of caste is entailed by particularly intimate intercourse only. (Nand.)
XXXVI. 1. M. XI, 88; Y. III, 251; Âpast. I, 9, 24, 6, 8, 9. — 2-7. M. XI, 57-59, 171, 172; Y. III, 228-233. — 2. Gaut. XXI, 10. - 5. Gaut. XXI, 1.-7. Âpast. I, 7, 21, 9,
1. The term âtreyî (atrigotrâ) has been translated here and in
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