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, 21.
21. (In the ordeal by water) he should immerse the individual in water and discharge three arrows.
22. He is acquitted (in the ordeal by poison) who has digested poison, which has been given to him according to rule, without the application of spells or antidotes. Otherwise he should be punished and compelled to pay the sum in dispute.
23. To whatsoever deity the accused happens to be devoted, let (the judge) bathe the weapon of that deity in water, and give him to drink three handfuls of it.
24. He to whom no calamity happens, within a week or a fortnight, (either to himself or) to his son, wife or property, is innocent beyond doubt.
25. Let a man chew grains of rice after having kept a fast and purified himself, at a time when the sun is not visible. He is acquitted if what he spits out is pure; but if it be mixed with blood, he must be (held) guilty.
26. Let (the person) take a hot piece of gold out of (a mixture of) well-heated oil and butter.
27. He whose fingers' ends do not tremble, and who does not become blistered, is acquitted according to law, as has been declared by Pitamaha.
28. Iron twelve Palas in weight should be formed into what is called a ploughshare. It should be eight Angulas long by four Angulas broad.
21. Viram. p. 271.
22. Vîram. p. 276. 23. Viram. P: 280.
24. Vîram. p. 281. 25. Víram. p. 282. The Todarananda attributes to Brihaspati another text identical with Nârada I, 25, 342 (above, p. 119).
26. Vîram. p. 283.
27. Vîram. p. 284. The same text occurs in the Nepalese Nârada.
28, 29. Vîram. p. 285. Some texts relating to this kind of
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