Zend Avesta Part 03

SR No.: 007673
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: L H Mills
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1887
Total Pages: 2618
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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NARADA.
24. 'Law of inheritance' consists of nineteen divisions ; 'heinous offences' of twelve; of both 'abuse' and 'assault' there are three divisions;
25. Gambling with dice and betting on animals' has a single division ; ‘miscellaneous' has six divisions. Thus, adding up all these branches (of the principal titles of law), there are one hundred and thirty-two of them.
12. management of the property of a deceased or absent brother; 13. work done by one to whom the management of the family property has been entrusted, &c.; 14. decision in the case of a contested partition ; 15. enumeration of the divers kinds of sons. [There ought to be nineteen subdivisions of the law of inheritance, instead of fifteen. That number might be obtained by counting each reason of exclusion from inheritance as a separate division.]
14. Heinous offences. 1. What constitutes a heinous offence; 2. punishments ordained for heinous offences; 3. robbery; 4. distinction between articles of inferior, middling, and superior value; 5, 6. the two kinds of robbers; 7. seizure of robbers; 8. granting food or shelter (to thieves), &c.; 9. thieves; 10. punishment of heinous offences and larceny; II. tracing a thief by the foot-marks; 12. confiscation of the property of thieves or others, when the stolen goods have not been recovered.
15, 16. Abuse and assault. 1. Abuse ; 2. assault; 3. punishments ordained for both offences.
17. Gambling with dice, and betting on animals.
18. Miscellaneous. 1. Protection of the (four) castes and (four) orders by the king in person; 2. dignity of a king ; 3. maintenance of Brahmans by the king; 4. authorisation from the king to bestow one's property (on Brahmans); 5. description of the various modes of subsistence permitted to a Brahman; 6. eight things worthy of reverence.
It should be noted that Asahấya himself, in the sequel of his commentary, does not adhere strictly to this division, and gives
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