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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PUNISHMENTS.
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52. Of a Brahman, sixty-fourfold; thus the son of the Self-Existent has declared. Knowledge makes a difference also. For knowing persons, (the punishment) is specially severe.
*53. Punishment is pronounced to be twofold: corporal punishment and fines. Corporal punishment is again declared to be of ten sorts; fines are (also) of more than one kind.
*54. Fines begin with a Kákani, and the highest amount of a fine is one's entire property. Corporal punishment begins with confinement and ends with capital punishment.
*55. 'Fines beginning with a Kakant'are declared to amount to no less than one Masha. Those are called 'fines amounting to no less than a Masha' which amount to one Kârshậpana at most.
*56. 'Fines beginning with no less than a Kârshapana' are those amounting to no less than four Kärshậpanas; or which begin with two, and end with eight (Kärshåpanas); or which begin with three, and end with twelve (Karshâ panas).
*57. A Kârshapana is a silver coin in the southern country; in the east, it is an equivalenů for (a certain number of) Panas, and is equal to twenty Panas.
52. Manu VIII, 338. 53. Manu VIII, 129. See too, above, paragraphs 36, 37. 54. Kâkani or Käkini is the name of a small coin. See par. 58.
53-56. This passage is quoted in the Smritikandrika, with several different readings. One of them, in par. 55, deserves special notice. For mâshavarah smatah (read smritah), the Smritik. reads mâshaparah smritah, "are declared to amount to no more than one Masha.' This is probably the correct reading.
57. According to Manu (VIII, 136), the Kârshapana is a copper coin. The reading of the second half of this paragraph is quite uncertain.
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