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one shall surely be an inhabitant in the mansion of the Drug!!!
FARGARD XV. I (1-8). On five sins the commission of which makes the sinner a Peshôtanu.
II a (9-12). On unlawful unions and attempts to procure miscarriage.
II b (13-19). On the obligations of the illegitimate father towards the mother and the child.
III (20–45). On the treatment of a bitch big with young. IV (46-51). On the breeding of dogs.
I. 1. How many are the sins that men commit and that, being committed and not confessed, nor atoned for, make their committer a Peshôtanu ? ?
2 (4). Ahura Mazda answered: 'There are five such sins, O holy Zarathustra! It is the first of these sins that men commit when a man teaches one of the faithful another faith, another laws, a lower doctrine, and he leads him astray with a full knowledge and conscience of the sin: the man who has done the deed becomes a Peshotanu.
3 (9). It is the second of these sins when a man gives bones too hard or food too hot to a shepherd's dog or to a house-dog ;
4 (11). 'If the bones stick in the dog's teeth or stop in his throat; or if the food too hot burn his
Cf. Farg. VIII, 107.
That is to say: he shall receive two hundred strokes with the Aspahê-astra or the Sraoshô-karana ; or pay three hundred istîrs.
· The Commentary has, 'that is, a creed that is not ours.'
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