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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CONTENTS.
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CHAP.
PAGE 30. Gôharikistân section of the same: superiority; selling
property of another, cattle, slaves, and without warranty ; (9) houses and clothing used during contagious sickness, fatal or otherwise, family alliance
with foreigners, sheep of good breed . . . . 97 31. A miscellaneous section of the same: stealing, religious
instruction, oppression and deceit, reducing liberality, limit of a wife's liberality, a bride going to her husband's house, quarrels in wedlock, menstruation, foreigners seeking wives; ($ 9) birth and care of a son, injurious things that must be kept, those who must not punish, rejoicing and gifts at a birth, naming the child, breeding sheep and dogs; (§ 20) fees for priestly duties, guardianship of a child, sickness from evil eye or touching a menstruous woman, fearfulness, supplies, produce of property, duties of judges; ($ 30) creation and production of corn, excitement due to blood, ownership, land-grabbing, supplies sold in distress, supremacy of sin, atonement for various sins; ($ 42)
the oppressor, greed, the weak man should be good. 99 32. Another section of the same: about an ordeal , 105 33. Another section of the same: mad animals and their
care . . . . . . . . . 103 34. A miscellaneous section of the same: amassing property,
arranging marriages for one's children, portioning daughters, righteous gifts, an Iranian vainly asking reward for assisting foreigners in battle, offering up of water; ($ 10) best and worst actions, heinous sins, various sins, assisting foreigners, destroying plants, digging a grave, clothing a corpse; defiling fire, water, or people; about water, damage by water or fire;
preventing misery and adversity . . . . 106 35. Another section of the same : seeking and begetting a
son, conception, tokens of sex, development of fetus; period of gestation and birth, period of determination of sex, childbirth and care of child; (§ 10) periods of gestation in various animals, spiritual perceptions of the child, habits tending to beauty, evils of unnatural intercourse and adultery; increased and diminished vigour of the female and male, respectively. . . 109
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