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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1, 65.
DEBTS; MODES OF SUBSISTENCE.
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61. When a Brahman is living by the occupations of a Vaisya, he must never sell milk, sour milk, clarified butter, honey, beeswax, lac, pungent condiments, liquids used for flavouring, spirituous liquor,
62. Meat, boiled rice, sesamum, linen, the juice of the Soma plant, flowers, fruit, precious stones, men, poison, weapons, water, salt, cakes, plants,
63. Garments, silk, skins, bone, blankets made of the hair of the mountain-goat, animals whose foot is not cloven, earthen pots, buttermilk, hair, dregs, vegetables, fresh ginger, and herbs.
64. A Brahman may sell dry wood and (dry) grass, excepting fragrant substances, Eraka grass, ratan, mulberry, roots, and Kusa grass.
65. (He may sell) twigs of bamboo that have fallen spontaneously, of fruits, the fruits of the jujube tree,
61-66. Manu X, 85-90; Yâgñavalkya III, 36–39; Gautama VII, 8-22; Vasishtha II, 24-31; Âpastamba I, 7, 20, 11 foll.
61. 'Pungent condiments,' such as sugar. 'Liquids, such as clarified butter and oil. A.
62. A. explains the term Soma, 'the juice of the Soma plant,' which is offered to the gods at a sacrifice, as denoting sacrificial implements generally; 'men,' i.e. servants; plants,' i.e. shrubs, creeping plants, and others. A.
63. Blankets,' i.e. what is made of wool. Animals whose foot is not cloven,' i.e. whole-hoofed animals, such as horses. Dregs,' i. e. the deposit of oil. Vegetables,' i.e. fresh pot-herbs. A.
64. Fragrant substances, such as the fragrant root of the plant Andropogon Muricatus, Bâlaka, the root of the Musta grass, and others. A. If the reading of a single MS. be followed, the sale of the articles enumerated in pars. 64 and 65 is also prohibited for a Brahman. Several of these articles are included among those substances the sale of which is prohibited by other legislators. See Manu X, 86–89; Yâgñavalkya III, 36-39. However, the reading translated above is distinctly supported by the Commentary of Asahaya, and by the analogous rules of Vasishtha.
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