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

Page 1495

302
BRIHASPATI.
VJI, 23.
23. After putting off his shoes and his turban, he should stretch out his right hand, and declare the truth, after taking in his hands gold, cow-dung, or blades of sacred grass.
24. When witnesses summoned in a suit) are faulty, the opponent may expose them. But a litigant trying to cast a blemish on faultless witnesses is liable to pay a fine to the same amount (as the property in dispute).
25. Whatever faults there may be in a document or in witnesses, they should be exposed at the time of the trial; those cannot be used as valid objections which are declared afterwards.
26. He whose documents or witnesses are objected to in a suit, cannot gain his cause till he has removed the objections raised against it.
27. I will now state, according to the rules of science, which men may be appointed as witnesses, and which others should be avoided as being low wretches.
28. Those may be witnesses who are in the habit of performing religious ceremonies taught in the Vedas and Smritis, free from covetousness and malice, of respectable parentage, irreproachable, and zealous in performing austerities, practising liberality, and exhibiting sympathy (with all living creatures).
29. The mother's father, the father's brother, the
23. Vîram. p. 172. 24. May. p. 25. I read arthi, for arthe, with Vîram. 25. May. p. 26.
26. May. p. 27. 27. Smritik. prashtavyâh sâkshino ye tu vargyas kaiva naradhamah i tân aham kathayishyami sampratam sâstrakoditân 11 srautasmārtakriyayukta lobhadveshavivargitâh kulînâh sâkshino s nindyâs tapodanadayanvitâh 11
29. May. p. 25.
Digitized by Google