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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V, 18.
CONTRACTS OF SERVICE.
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pay obedience to him, scolding him or chastising him with a rope or with a small shoot of cane.
14. (The teacher) must not strike him a heavy blow, nor (must he beat him) on a noble part or on the chest; and he must encourage him, after having chastised him. Otherwise the king shall punish him.
*15. After having completed his studies, let him give the customary present to his teacher and turn home. The conduct of a pupil has been declared.
*16. If a young man) wishes to be initiated into the art of his own craft, with the sanction of his relations, he must go and live with a master, the duration of his apprenticeship having been fixed.
*17. The master shall teach him at his own house and feed him. He must not employ him in work of a different description, and treat him like a son.
*18. If one forsakes a master, who instructs him
13. Scolding him, i.e. abusing him. A. The Nepalese MS. has a better reading of this clause: Or he shall beat him without hurting him, with' &c.
14. A leacher, though angry, must not strike his pupil severely, nor on a noble part, nor on the chest. After having beaten him, he must again encourage him. If the teacher, actuated by an excess of anger, beats him too severely, the pupil shall announce it to the king, who shall punish the teacher. A.
15. Manu II, 245; Yâgñavalkya I, 51; Âpastamba I, 11, 30, 1; Gautama IX, 1; Vishnu XXVIII, 42.
16-21. Rules for an apprentice. A.
16. The teacher must make an agreement in this form, 'Let this apprentice stay with me so and so long.' Vîramitrodaya.
17. The teacher shall cause the pupil to do the work peculiar to his own profession, and no other work, and shall feed him and instruct him at his own house. He shall treat him like a son, and not like a labourer. A.
18. If a pupil forsakes his teacher, though the latter has not committed a mortal sin or other heavy crime, the teacher may compel him by forcible means to remain at his house. A.
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