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, 81.
religion) in the presence of the deities and Brahmans.
81. Having called near the person accused, (the judge) should place him inside the circle and cause him to swallow three handsful of water, after having caused him to face the sun.
82. After having worshipped that deity (to which the accused is devoted, the judge) should wash (the image of that deity) with water, proclaim his crime, and cause him to swallow the three handsful of water.
83. When some one drinks consecrated water of his own accord, after having been charged with a crime, and does not confess his guilt, actuated by avarice, such a wicked man will become a leper (in a future birth).
84. When a man tells a lie knowingly and intentionally, after having drunk consecrated water, he is born as a poor, sick, or foolish person in seven (successive) existences.
85. When a man administers the (ordeal by) sacred libation by force to procure some advantage to himself, it will destroy himself, nor will his affairs prosper.
86. When a man has been convicted (by this
81. M. Macn. X, 6, 8 (uncertain); V.T. The circle has to be made with cowdung. M.
82. Vîram. p. 279.
83. Vîram. p. 279; Smritik. I read, with the latter work, yah kaskid důshito narah, after having been charged with a crime,' instead of na kvakid dushito narah,'without having been charged with: a crime' (Vîram.).
84, 85. Ibid.
86. Minor Narada I, 9,5. vibhävitam sa dâpyah syâd dhaninâ tu svayam dhanam I rinâk ka dvigunam dandan râgâ dharmena dâpayet II
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