Zend Avesta Part 02

SR No.: 007672
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Darmesteter
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1883
Total Pages: 2221
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 41 MB

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of aristocrats condemned for taking bribes, the just judge; ($ 160) possibility of reaching heaven, true and false justice, learning the Gathas, Hâdôkht, and Vastag; greatness of the law, kinds of property not to be taken as security, ten friends differing, and much other ad
judication . . . . . . . . 53 21. First section of the Ganaba-sar-nigad Nask : the thief, his
arrest, sin, punishment, and ransom, pinioning and fettering, imprisonment at expense of privileged accusers; kinds of theft, theft with plunder, injury, and in confederacy; shares in theft, assisting a thief, theft by women and children, property to be preserved from thieves; ($ 10) testimony of thieves, rewards, difference of theft and plunder, property to
be restored to its owners, protectors of thieves. . 74 22. Second section of the same is miscellaneous: authority
for enquiry into sin of a relative, teaching and sin of children, not killing in war, property of a slain soldier, weapons not for women, children, or foreigners; a woman's treatment of two men, supplies found by a warrior, property inexpedient, delays of a judge ; ($ 10) improper decisions, duties of judges; (§ 21) fitness of women and children for judgeship, aiding a disciple, supremacy of Rashnů, property in trust, consistency of actions, congregational actions, misuse of
the law . . . . . . . . . 77 23. Pasûs-haûrvastân section of the same: selection and
efficiency of the shepherd's dog, preparations for him his duties; ($ 12) characteristics of sheep, way to the village, when starved the dog may kill a sheep, stray sheep and dogs; treatment, punishment, instruction,
and peculiarities of the dog . . . . . 81 24. Störistän section of the same: sin of injuring cattle,
beasts, and sheep; branding, making a dog dumb, plucking birds, spoiling fish, beating cattle, leathern and woollen clothing, sin of burning it, good works
lead to heaven, and sin to hell. . . . . 84 25. Argistân section of the same: value of property, animate
and inanimate, and of preserving the righteous; damaging the sacred fire
. . . . 86
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