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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XV, XVI, 4.
HEINOUS OFFENCES; ABUSE.
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FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH TITLES
OF LAW.
ABUSE AND ASSAULT. *1. Abusive speeches, couched in offensive and violent terms, regarding the native country, caste, family, and so forth (of a man), are termed Abuse, (a title of law.)
*2. It is divided into three species, called respectively Nishthura, Aslila, and Tivra. The punishment for each increases in severity according as the insult is of a more (or less) serious nature.
* 3. Abuse combined with reproaches has to be regarded as Nishthura ; abuse couched in insulting language is Aslila; charging one with an offence causing expulsion from caste is called Tivra by the learned.
* 4. Hurting the limbs of another person with a hand, foot, weapon or otherwise, or defiling him
XV, XVI, 1. Thus, e.g. when a man says, 'The Gaudas (Bengalis) are quarrelsome,' he abuses another man's native country. When a man says, 'Brahmans are very avaricious,' he abuses another man's caste. When he says, The Visvâmitras are a ferocious race,' he abuses another man's family. The clause and so forth' is added, in order to include abusive speeches levelled against learned men, artizans, or the like persons, whose learning or art has been abused. “Violent terms,' i.e. terms which ought never to be used. Mitâkshara, p. 285; Viramiiroda ya, p. 482.
3. Abuse combined with reproaches' is when e. g. a man says, "What a fool,' or 'What a rascal.' 'Abuse couched in insulting language' is when a man says, 'I will visit your sister,' or the like.
Charging one with a mortal sin causing expulsion from caste,' such as e. g. the drinking of spirituous liquor. See loc. cit.
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