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LII, 17.
PENANCES.
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(milk or other) drinks, a bed, a seat, flowers, roots, or fruit, drinking Pañkagavya (is ordained as penance).
9. (For stealing) grass, firewood, trees, rice in the husk, sugar, clothes, skins, or flesh, the thief must fast for three days.
10. (For stealing knowingly) precious stones, pearls or coral, copper, silver, iron, or white copper, he must eat grain separated from the husk for twelve days.
11. For stealing (unawares) cotton, silk, wool or other (stuffs), he must subsist for three days upon milk.
12. For stealing two-hoofed or one-hoofed animals, he must fast for three days.
13. For stealing birds, or perfumes, or medicinal herbs, or cords, or basket-work, he must fast for one day.
14. Though a thief may have restored to the owner the stolen property (either openly or) in some indirect manner", he must still perform a penance, in order to purify himself from guilt.
15. Whatever a man takes from others, unchecked (by the dictates of religion), of that will he be bereft in every future birth.
16. Because life, religious merit, and pleasure depend upon wealth, therefore let a man take care not to injure the wealth (of others by robbing them) by any means.
17. Among those two, he who injures animal life, and he who injures wealth, the one who injures wealth shall incur the heavier penalty.
14. 1. As under pretext of handing over to him the dowry of a wife.' (Nand.)
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| SR No. | 007671 |
| Book Title | Zend Avesta Part 01 |
| 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 |