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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XVIII, 38.
MISCELLANEOUS.
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distinguished seat at the king's court. The king shall show his face in the morning before the Brahmans first of all, and shall salute them all.
36. When nine or seven persons (of different rank) meet, they shall first make room for the Brahman to pass by. (Further privileges assigned to the Brahman caste are) free access to the houses of other people, for the purpose of begging alms,
37. The right to collect fuel, flowers, water, and the like, without its being regarded as theft, and to converse with other men's wives, without being restrained (in such intercourse) by others,
38. And the right to cross rivers without paying any fare, and to be conveyed (to the other bank) before other people. When engaged in trading and using a ferry-boat, they shall have to pay no toll.
36. That privilege of the Brahman caste, which is referred to in the first part of this paragraph, finds its explanation in a wellknown rule of the Dharmasastra regarding persons for whom way must be made, on meeting them in a road. Thus it is ruled by Gautama (VI, 24) that way must be made for a man seated in a carriage, for one who is in his tenth (decade), for one requiring consideration, for a woman, for a Snataka, and for a king; but that a king himself must make way for a Srotriya (learned Brahman). This makes in all seven persons for whom way should be made. Manu (II, 138), Yâgħavalkya (I, 117), Baudhayana (II, 6, 30), and Vishnu (LXIII, 51) agree in enumerating eight persons of this sort. Vasishtha (XIV, 57-60) mentions nine. See, too, Apastamba II, 5, 11, 5-7.
37. Manu VIII, 339; Âpastamba I, 10, 28, 3; Gautama XII, 28; Yâgñavalkya II, 166.
38. Manu VIII, 407; Vishnu V, 132. The last clause is thus given in the Nepalese MS.: They shall have to pay no toll on being carried across a river in a ferry, unless they should cross it) for trading purposes.'
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