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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XLI, 3.
CRIMES.
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XL. 1. Receiving anything from a (Mlekkha or other) despicable person (even though not as a present, but in the form of interest, &c.), traffic (even with articles that are not forbidden to sell), subsisting by money-lending (even without exceeding the legitimate rate of interest), telling lies (even though not in giving evidence), and serving a Sudra (even though without doing servile acts for him) are crimes rendering unworthy to receive alms.
2. He who has committed a crime rendering unworthy to receive alms, is purified by the penance Taptakrikkhra (in case he committed it knowingly), or by the penance Sitakrikkhra (in case he did it unawares), or by the penance Mahâsântapana in case it was committed) repeatedly.
XLI. 1. Killing birds, amphibious animals, and aquatic animals (such as fish);
2. And worms or insects;
3. Eating (nutmegs or other) plants similar to intoxicating drinks (in their effect upon the system):
perform the penance mentioned here through a substitute, if unable to perform it himself.' (Nand.)
XL. I. M. XI, 70.
2. Regarding the penances mentioned here, see XLVI, II, 12, 20.
XLI. 1-4. M. XI, 71.
3. Or the term madyânugata means hemp and the like.' (Nand.) Kullaka (on M. XI, 71) interprets it by what has been brought in the same basket or vessel with spirituous liquor;' Medâtithi, quoted by the same, by what has been defiled by spirituous liquor. The rendering given in the text agrees with the first interpretation proposed by Nand.
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