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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VISHNU.
L, 8.
8. Likewise, he who has killed (unintentionally) a pregnant woman, or a woman in her courses.
9. Or a woman who has bathed after temporary uncleanness;
10. Or 1 a friend.
11. He who has (unintentionally) killed a king, must perform the Mahâvrata for twice the same number of years (or twenty-four years);
12. He who has (unintentionally) killed a Kshatriya (not engaged in a sacrifice, nor a king), for one quarter of that time less (or for nine years);
13. He who has (unintentionally) killed a Vaisya (not engaged in a sacrifice), for half of that time (or for six years).
14. He who has (unintentionally) killed a (virtuous) Sadra, for half of that time again (or for three years).
15. He who is performing any of those penances, must carry (on his stick) the skull of the person slain, like a flag.
16. Let a man serve cows for a month, his hair and beard having been shorn.
17. And let him sit down to rest when they rest;
18. And 1 let him stand still when they stand still ;
8. 1 Nand, infers from texts of Praketas, Yama, and Parâsara, that the particle vâ, or,' here refers to pregnant cows, and to women whose confinement is close at hand, or who are married to one who has kindled his sacred fire, or for whom all the sacred rites have been duly performed from their birth.
9. Nand. refers the particle vâ, 'or,' to women of high rank and to a rival wife, or a mother, or a daughter, or a sister, or a daughterin-law, or a wife, who is of the same caste as her husband.
10. "The particle vâ includes children here.' (Nand.) 18. 1 According to Nand., the particle ka here refers to the
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