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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SHAYAST LÂ-SHAYAST.
are mentioned in revelation, which are Farmân, Ågerept, A vôirist?, Aredūs, Khôr, Bâzâi, Yât, and Tanâpahar 2 2. A Farmân is the weight of four
sunrise (avar-kharshêdîh) and in the forenoon (kâîtîh=kästih) are no more apart. . . . Whoever inflicts the Aredûs blow on a man it is one-fifth of a wound (rêsh). . . . Whoever inflicts that which is a cruel Khôr ("hurt) on a man it is one-fourth of a wound. . . . Whoever 'inflicts that which is a bleeding Khôr on a man it is one-third of a wound.... Whoever shall give & man a bone-breaking Khôr it is half a wound. ... Whoever strikes a man the blow which puts mm out of consciousness shall give a whole wound.'
This description does not mention Båsâî and Yât, unless they be the two severer kinds of Khôr; but Bâzâî occurs in Pahl.Vend. IV, 115, V, 107, XIII, 38, though Yât seems not to be mentioned in the Vendidad. Aredūs occurs again in Pahl. Vend. Ifi, 151, and Khôr in Pahl. Vend. III, 48, XIII, 38, and Yas. LVI, iv, 2.
Also written avôîrist, avîrist, aîvîrist, avôkîrist, and avakõrist in other places.
Five of these names are merely slight alterations of the Av. ågerepta, avaoirista, aredus, hvara, and tanuperetha (peretôtanu or peshôtanu). The last seven degrees are also noticed in a very obscure passage in Farh. Okh. pp. 36, 37 (correcting the text from the old MSS. M6 and K20) as follows:
'Âgerept, "seized," is that when they shall take up a weapon for smiting an innocent person ; Avôirîst, "turning," is that when one turns the weapon upon an innocent person ; when through sinfulness one lays the weapon on a sinner the name is Aredus; for whatever reaches the source of life the name is Khôr; one explains Bâsâî as "smiting," and Yât as" going to," and the soul of man ought to be withstanding, as a counterstroke is the penalty for a Yat when it has been so much away from the abode of life. In like manner âgerept, A vôirîst, Aredûs, Khôr, Bâzâî, and Yat are also called good works, which are performed in like propor. tions, and are called by the names of weights and measures in the same manner. Of peshotanus tanam pairyêite the meaning is a Tanâpühar; as they call a good work of three hundred a Tanapühar, on account of the three hundred like proportions of the same kind, the meaning of its name. Tanâpühar, thereupon enters into sin. . . . A Khôr is just that description of wound from which
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