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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CONTRACTS OF SERVICE.
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* 24. One appointed to manage the property (of the family) and to superintend the household, must also be regarded as a labourer. He is also termed Kautumbika (the general family servant).
* 25. Thus have the four classes of servants doing pure work been enumerated. All the others do dirty work and are slaves, of whom there are fifteen kinds.
*26. One born at (his master's) house; one pur
34. The property,' meaning fields or ready money, &c. One appointed to manage it,' i.e. one deputed to administrate it. Viramitrodaya, p. 405.
26–28. 'One born at (his master's) house,' one born of a female slave in the house (of her master). One received (by gift),' one obtained by the acceptance of a gift and the like. One obtained by inheritance,' a slave of the father or other ancestor. One maintained during a general famine,' one whose life has been preserved, during a period of dearth, in order that he might do service (for his preserver). 'One pledged by his rightful owner,' one reduced to the condition of a pledge, for a loan received (by his master). One released from a heavy debt,' one enslaved for debt, whose debt has been paid and who has thereby become the slave (of him who paid the debt). One made captive in a fight,' one defeated in a combat and enslaved by the victorious party.
One won through a wager,' one gained through the success of a cause, which was preceded by an agreement in this form, If I am defeated in this quarrel, I will be thy slave.' 'One who has come forward declaring, “I am thine," ' one who has promised of his own accord to become the slave of another man. 'An apostate from asceticism,' one who has forsaken the order of religious ascetics. One enslaved for a stipulated period,' one obtained through an agreement in this form, I will be thy slave for such a space of time.' One who has become a slave in order to get a maintenance,' one who has offered himself as a slave, on condition that food shall always be given to him. One enslaved on account of his connexion with a female slave :' by a female slave is meant a female house-slave; one enslaved for connexion with her is one who has married her through love, and has thus been reduced to the status of a slave. One self-sold' is one who has sold himself.
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