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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SHẤYAST LÂ-SHẤYAST.
Part 1.- The Original Treatise.
CHAPTER I. 0. In the name of God (yazdân) and the good creation may there be the good health, long life, and abundant wealth of all the good and the rightdoers specially for him whose writing I am 1.
1. As revealed by the Avesta, it is said in the Vendidad ? that these seven degrees (pâyak) of sin
* See the note on B. Yt. I, o.
• Referring to Vend. IV, 54-114, where seven classes of assault and their respective punishments are detailed. In our text eight classes of sin are named, although only seven degrees are mentioned; the second and third classes being apparently arranged together, as one degree of sin in § 2. Or the inconsistency may have arisen from the addition of the Farmân, a class of sin or crime not mentioned in the Vendidad, unless, indeed, it be the farmân spôkhtano, 'neglect of commandment' (referring probably to priest's commands), of Pahl. Vend. VI, 15. The other seven classes are thus described in Pahl. Vend. IV, 54-57, 79, 85, 93, 99, 106 :
By the man whose weapon (or blow) is upraised for striking a man, that which is his Âgerept is thus implanted in him. When it has moved forward-that is, he makes it advance it is thus his Avôirîst, that is, Avôirîst is implanted in him and the Āgerept merges into it, some say that it does not exist. When he comes on to him with thoughts of malice--that is, he places a hand upon him it is thus his Aredūs, that is, Aredûs is implanted in him and the Avôirîst merges into it, some say that it does not exist. At the fifth Ared as the man even becomes a Tanâpâhar ; things at
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