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.
VI, 68.
68. Now then I will proclaim the excellent rule regarding the ordeal by) poison, (stating) how the king should give poison, the best means of purification for a man.
69. Let him give the poison in the presence of (images of) the deities and Brahmans, after having kept a fast and worshipped Mahesvara with incense, offerings, and sacred texts.
70. (The judge) should give the poison with fixed attention, facing the north or the east, in the presence of Brahmans, (while the accused) is facing the south.
71. Let seven Yavas be given, as a test of innocence, without doubt, of poison from the Sringa tree or Vatsanâbha (poison) or Himaga poison.
72. In the morning and in a cool place let the poison be given to all persons, after it has been finely ground, and mixed with clarified butter thirty times the quantity.
73. He must not give poison to infants, disabled or superannuated persons, or to those who have committed a very light offence only, or to a madman, to one severely afflicted, to a cripple, or to ascetics.
74. If the person (examined) undergoes no change
68. Minor Narada I, 8, 1 (p. 52). atah param pravakshyami vishasya vidhim uttamamyatha dadyâd visham råga sodhanam paramam nrinam 11 69. M. Macn. X, 5, 4.
70. M. Macn. X, 5, 6. 71. Tod.; Vîram. p. 273 (Pitamaha '). Himąga poison is no doubt the poison elsewhere called Haimavata, 'coming from the Himalayas.'
72. Viram. p. 275; M. Macn. X, 5, 13 ("Kâtyâyana'),
73. Nepalese Narada. na bâlâturavriddheshu naiva svalpåparadhishu | nonmattârte tathâ vyange na ka dadyât tapasvishuu
74. M. Macn. X, 5, 16.
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