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PAGE 16. Patkâr-radistân section of the Nîkadum Nask: misery
from sin and assault, kinds of assault and magisterial enquiry; ($ 13) punishment without enquiry, counter
assault . . . . . . . . . 35 17. Zatamistân section of the same : assault and its conse
quences, begging and beneficence, perversion, using weapons, conflict through assault, tumult, false-teach ing, starving, spells, and threats, by men, women, and children; ill-treatment of slaves, compensation the only atonement, responsibility of fathers for crimes of children
. . . . . . . . 39 18. Rêshistân section of the same: kinds of wounds, scourg
ing, 76 members of the body, effects of assaults, modes of assaulting, description of a wound and the weapon,
curing wounds . . . . . . . 41 19. Hamêmâlistân section of the same: various accusations,
true and false, and retribution for the offences; pollution, a young woman well taught, slander, care of a pregnant woman, a householder neglecting his family, opinions of quiet and unquiet people; ($ 10) cowardice, impenitence, sin of priests, retribution, authority of priests, punishment of judges, illegal action of plaintiff, seizing purity of foreigners, those worthy of death, confession; ($ 21) assault with a weapon, curing a wounded person who afterwards dies, security taken from defendant, procrastination by plaintiff, mediation, assaults furious and harmless, punishment of a child for sin, interpretation, signs of approval by the dying; ($ 31) undefined assault, killing a foreigner, great hinderers, indiscriminate assault, a frontier governor, striking the living and dead, timber and firewood, atonement and ordeals, physicians, mutilating a horse ; (8 41) a wound as evidence of crime, modes of using a weapon, assault and retribution, incarceration, pulling a steed's tail, threats and spells, various plaints and plaintiffs, pleadings inconsistent with accusations; ($ 50) master unfriendly to disciple, arresting and prosecuting a thief, the good to be treated like oneself, when carrying off property becomes theft, native and foreign thieves, why the foreigner is unfettered, assail
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