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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BRIHASPATI.
X, 9.
must be administered which corresponds to the amount (of the sum in dispute) and to the (character or strength of the) individual (to be examined).
9. (The ordeal by) poison should be administered when (property worth) a thousand (Panas) has been stolen ; (the ordeal by) fire, when a quarter less than that (or 750, has been stolen).
10. When the charge concerns four hundred, the hot piece of gold should be administered. (When it concerns) three hundred, the grains of rice should be given ; and the sacred libation, (when it concerns). half of that.
11. When a hundred has been stolen or falsely denied, purgation by Dharma should be administered. Thieves of cows should be subjected by preference to the (ordeal by the) ploughshare by the judges.
12. These figures are applicable in the case of low persons; for persons of a middling kind, double is ordained ; and for persons of the highest rank, the amount has to be fixed four times as high by persons entrusted with judicial affairs.
13. The quantities (of various coins or weights), beginning with a floating particle of dust and ending with a Kârshapana, have been declared by Manu. They are applicable both to ordeals and to fines.
14. A Nishka is four Suvarnas. A Pana of
9-12. Vîram. p. 230. I read, with Smritik, katuhsatábhiyoge in 10, and sabhyaih phâlam prayatnatah in 11.
11. Dharma, 'test of right and wrong,' is the ordeal which consists of drawing lots or slips of white and black paper.
12. 'Eminent persons,' through their birth, qualities, or virtue. The same interpretation applies to the two other terms. Vîram.
13. Vîram. p. 233. See Manu VIII, 131-138.
14, 15. Vîram. p. 234. I read kândikå for kândrikå in it, with Vîramitrodaya.
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