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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VI, 4.
SERVICE; WAGES.
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having declared him a free man three times, he shall dismiss him with his face turned towards the east 1.
SIXTH TITLE OF LAW.
NON-PAYMENT OF WAGES. *1. A series of rules will be stated (next) for the payment and non-payment of labourers' wages. It is termed Non-payment of Wages,' a title of law.
*2. A master shall regularly pay wages to the servant hired by him, whether it be at the commencement, at the middle, or at the end of his work, just as he had agreed to do.
* 3. Where the amount of the wages has not been fixed, (the servant of) a trader, a herdsman, and an agricultural servant shall respectively take a tenth part of the profit (derived from the sale of merchandise), of the seed of cows, and of the grain.
*4. Their implements of work, and whatever else
1 The Indian MSS. and some quotations insert the following paragraph here, which is omitted in the Nepalese MS, and in other quotations :
6*44. From that time let it be said that this slave is cherished by the favour of his master. His food may be eaten, and presents accepted from him, and he shall be respected (by worthy persons).'
VI, 2. When the amount of the wages has been fixed by an agreement in this form, 'I will give thee thus much,' it shall be divided into three parts, and one part be given on three occasions, viz. at the commencement, middle, and end of the labour. This rule is applicable where the amount of the wages has been fixed. The next paragraph states the rule for those cases where the amount of the wages has not been fixed. Vîramitrodaya, p. 414.
3. The strange term 'the seed of cows' denotes cows' milk according to the commentators. Yågħavalkya II, 194.
4. The phrase whatever may have been entrusted to servants for their business' is explained as referring to grain and the like
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