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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QUOTATIONS FROM NÂRADA.
IV, 8.
8. If, then, the student after having completed his period of studentship (and returned from his preceptor) were to look after his property, possession (by a stranger) continued for fifty years would be capable of depriving him of his property.
9. Twelve years for (the study of) each Veda is the period ordained for those engaged in the pursuit of religious knowledge; for those engaged in the acquisition of mechanical (or manual) skill, the period (of apprenticeship) is declared to last till they have acquired their art.
10. What has been possessed against their wish by their friends or relations, and what has been possessed by persons offending against the king, is not lost by the lapse of (a long) time.
V. WITNESSES.
I. (By false evidence concerning land, a witness kills everything; beware, then, of giving false evidence concerning land.) In the case of (false evidence concerning) water, the consequence is said to be the same as for land, and so it is in the case of carnal connexion with a female, as well as in the
vritto vratî kuryât svadhanânveshanam tatah i pažkåsadâbdiko bhogas taddhanasyâpahârakah Il prativedam dvadasâbdah kalo vidyarthinâm smritah 1 silpavidyarthinam kaiva grahanântah prakîrtitah Il suhridbhir bandhubhis kaishâm yat syâd bhuktam avasyatâm nripaparâdhikam kaiva na tat kålena hîyate 11 See Manu III, 1.
V, 1-3. Vîram. p. 171. See Narada I, 17, 209 (above, p. 92), the text immediately preceding these texts in the Vîramitrodaya. 1, 3=Manu VIII, 100, 101. All these texts, up to 10, form part of the exhortation to be addressed to the witnesses by the judge. In 2, I have substituted tathâsvavat, the reading of the Todarananda, for tathậpnuyât.
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