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.
V, 8.
8. Although, O virtuous man, thou thinkest of thyself, “I am alone,' yet that says who sees the evil and the good ever resides in thy heart.
9. If thou art not at variance with the god Yama, the son of Vivasvant, who resides in thy heart, thou needest not go to the Ganges or to (the country of) the Kurus.
10. Perjured witnesses, as well as those who rob others of their property, and wicked kings, shall have to reside (hereafter) in a very dreadful hell for the time of a kalpa.
II. When (a calamity such as) an illness, or fire, or the death of a relative, happens to a witness within seven days after his evidence has been taken, he shall be made to pay the debt and a fine.
12. Learned Brahmans and other such persons (are incompetent witnesses) under a text of law; thieves and the like persons, on account of their notorious perversity; (the deposition of the witnesses is worthless) owing to mutual contradiction when the witnesses make mutually conflicting statements at the trial of a cause.
13. One who gives evidence of his own accord' is a witness who comes to make a deposition of his own accord, without being appointed (a witness). Such a man is termed a spy in the law-books, and he is not worthy to become a witness.
10. Smritik. atîvanarake kalpam vaseyuh kutasakshinah I paravittaharâ ye ka râgânas kâpyadhârmikâh 11 A kalpa is a fabulous period of time, the duration of which is reckoned in various ways.
11. Tod. Identical with Manu VIII, 108.
12-14. Viram. P. 151. 12, 13a, and 14 occur in the Minor Nârada as well (p. 34), where they come immediately after a text which is identical with Narada I, 12, 157 (above, p. 82).
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