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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ORDEALS.
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copper is a Kârshika (having the weight of one Karsha). A coin made of a Karsha of copper has to be known as a Kârshika Pana.
15. It is also called an Andika. Four such are a Dhânaka. Twelve of the latter are a Suvarna. That is also called a Dinâra (denarius).
16. (The testimony of) witnesses is apt to become invalid, whether it be through affection, anger, or avarice. An ordeal properly administered never loses its validity.
17. When a doubt arises with regard to a document or oral evidence, and when ratiocination also fails, purgation through ordeal (is the proper test).
18. Let an ordeal be administered according to the established rule by persons acquainted with the rule of ordeals. If it is administered against the rule, it is ineffective as a means of proving what ought to be proved.
19. If one who has been subjected to the ordeal by balance goes down on being weighed (for the second time), he shall be held guilty. If he remains level, he shall be balanced once more. If he rises, he gains his cause.
20. Should the scale break, or the balance, or beam, or iron hooks split, or the strings burst, or the transverse beam split, he would have to be declared guilty.
15. Nearly identical with Nárada, Appendix, 62 (p. 232). 16. Vîram. p. 242.
17. Smritik. likhite sâkshivåde ka samdeho yatra gâyate | anumâne ka sambhrante tatra daivam visodhanam 11
18. Tod. yathoktavidhinâ deyam divyam divyavisâradaih ayathoktapradattam tu na satyam sâdhyasadhane il 19. Viram. p. 253.
20. Vfram. p. 254.
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