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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IV, 9.
RESUMPTION OF GIFT.
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may be given. But by giving away anything besides, a householder will incur censure.
7. He who has, for three years, property sufficient to provide for those whom he is bound to maintain, or who has even more than that, shall drink the Soma juice.
*8. The price paid for merchandise, wages, (a present offered) for an amusement, (a gift made) from affection, or from gratitude, or for sexual intercourse with a woman, and a respectful gift, are the seven kinds of valid gifts.
* 9. Invalid gifts are the following (sixteen): what
7. This rule applies to those cases where there is more wealth than what suffices to maintain the family. A. Manu XI, 7; Yagñavalkya I, 124; Vasishtha VIII, 10; Vishnu LIX, 8.
8. Those gifts only are valid which have been made in one of the seven modes here mentioned. The sixteen other modes of gift are illegal. A. 'A present offered for an amusement,' i. e. what has been given to bards, eulogists, and the like persons. "A gift made from affection,' to a daughter or other relative. Vîramitrodaya, &c. Instead of strîbhakti, sexual intercourse with a woman,' the MSS. of Vulg. and the quotations read strisulka, a nuptial gift presented to the relations of the wife.'
9-11. I. 'Fear,' as e. g. if an honest man promises one hundred drachmas to a ruffian who addresses him, while he is passing through a forest, with the words, If thou givest me one hundred drachmas, thou shalt live. Otherwise, thou shalt die. 2. Anger, or hatred :' if a man, actuated by jealousy, says to a Brahman, to whom his wife has offered a seat, All the furniture which you see in this house shall be yours.' 3. 'Sorrow:' if a man, in a heavy affliction, declares, "I will go into the forest. My house has been given to Brahmans to-day.' 4. Pain:' a man distressed by a painful illness, says to a Brahman, 'I have given thee one hundred Suvarnas. 5. 'A bribe:' a litigant says to an assessor of the court, I will give thee one hundred Panas if my cause is declared victorious by thee.' 6. In jest,' what has been laughingly given. 7. Under false pretences,' as e. g. under the following circumstances :- A libidinous man is enamoured of a public woman, by the name of Katamañgart (Mango Bud'). He is deprived of her
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