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.
I, 326.
Truth and virtue are thy support. Clear this man from guilt. Become (like) Ambrosia to him, through truth.'
* 326. Let the man be kept in a shadowy place without taking food, for the whole remainder of the day. If he remains free from convulsions such as are generally caused by poison, he is declared innocent by Manu.
24. The Ordeal by Sacred Libation. * 327. Now I shall proclaim the excellent rule regarding the ordeal by sacred libation, as it has been laid down, for all seasons indiscriminately, by learned men.
* 328. The consecrated water shall be given, early in the morning, to a virtuous man, who believes in God. He must have fasted and bathed, and wear his wet clothes.
* 329. The defendant should be made to drink three mouthfuls of water in which (an image of) the deity whom he holds sacred has been bathed and worshipped.
* 330. If he should meet himself with any calamity
326. Here ends the chapter of the ordeal by poison. A. 327–333. Vishnu XIV; Yâgñavalkya II, 112, 113.
327. The ordeal by sacred libation is performed by swallowing three mouthfuls of consecrated water in which 'an idol has been bathed. The defendant is declared innocent, if no misfortune befalls him within a certain period after this trial.
328. Immoral persons and infidels must not be subjected to this ordeal, because they are already deprived of the assistance of the gods in every case. A. Read pärvâhne in the text.
330. If any misfortune should happen to him, through the act of the king or through fate, it shall be taken as proof of his guilt. A. Other legislators refer in particular to illness, fire, death
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