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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XLV, 12.
TRANSMIGRATION.
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XLV. 1. Now after having undergone the torments inflicted in the hells, and having passed through the animal bodies, the sinners are born as human beings with the following) marks (indicating their crime) :
2. A criminal in the highest degree shall have leprosy;
3. A killer of a Brâhmana, pulmonary consumption;
4. A drinker of spirits, black teeth;
5. A stealer of gold (belonging to a Brâhmana), deformed nails;
6. A violator of his spiritual teacher's bed, a disease of the skin ;
7. A calumniator, a stinking nose; 8. A malignant informer, stinking breath 9. A stealer of grain, a limb too little;
10. One who steals by mixing (i. e. by taking good grain and replacing the same amount of bad grain in its stead), a limb too much ;
II. A stealer of food, dyspepsia ; 12. A stealer of words , dumbness;
XLV. 2–31. M. XI, 49-52 ; Y. III, 209–211. — 32, 33. M. XI, 53, 54.
2. According to a text of Satâtapa, which Nand. quotes in explanation of this Satra, connection with the mother is punished with 'falling or incurable epilepsy,' when the organ falls of; connection with a daughter is punished with red epilepsy; connection with a daughter-in-law, with black leprosy; and connection with a sister, with yellow leprosy.
12. 11. e. according to Kullaka and Nand., one who studies the Veda without permission to do so;' or it may denote, according to Nand., a stealer of a book,' or 'one who fails to communicate information which he is able to give.'
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