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, 30.
30. If he has (intentionally) killed a dog, he must fast for three days.
31. If he has (unintentionally) killed a mouse, or a cat, or an ichneumon, or a frog, or a Dundubha snake, or a large serpent (a boa constrictor), he must fast one day, and on the next day he must give a dish of milk, sesamum, and rice mixed together to a Brâhmana, and give him an iron hoe as his 'fee.
32. If he has killed (unintentionally) an iguana, or an owl, or a crow, or a fish, he must fast for three days.
33. If he has killed (intentionally) a Hamsa, or a crane, or a heron, or a cormorant, or an ape, or a falcon, or the vulture called Bhâsa, or a Brâhmani duck, he must give a cow to a Brâhmana.
34. If he has killed a snake, (he must give) an iron spade.
35. If he has killed emasculated (cattle or birds)", (he must give) a load of straw 2.
36. If he has killed intentionally) a boar, (he must give) a Kumbha of clarified butter.
37. If he has intentionally) killed a partridge, (he must give) a Drona of sesamum.
38. If he has (intentionally) killed a parrot, (he must give) a calf two years old.
39. If he has (intentionally) killed a curlew, (he must give) a calf three years old.
40. If he has (unintentionally) killed a wild carnivorous animal, he must give a milch cow.
35. Thus according to Nand., who declares himself against the interpretation of shanda by 'a eunuch ;' see, however, Kullûka on M. XI, 134, and Dr. Bühler's rendering of Gaut. XXII, 23.
Nand. adds, and a Masha of lead;' see the passages just referred to.
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