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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XVII, 24.
VIOLATION OF AGREEMENTS.
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18. Whatever is done by those (heads of an association), whether harsh or kind towards other people, must be approved of by the king as well; for they are declared to be the appointed managers (of affairs),
19. Should they agree, actuated by hatred, on injuring a single member of the fellowship, the king must restrain them; and they shall be punished, if they persist in their conduct.
20. When a dispute arises between the chiefs and the societies, the king shall decide it, and shall bring them back to their duty.
21. Those (companions in trade) who conspire to cheat the king of the share due to him (of their profits), shall be compelled to pay eight times as much, and shall be punished if they take to flight.
22. Whatever is obtained then by a man, shall belong to all in common; whether it have been obtained a sixmonth or a month ago, it shall be divided in due proportion.
23. (Or) it shall be bestowed on the idiotic, the aged, the blind, to women or children, to afflicted or diseased persons, to persons having issue, or the like (worthy persons). This is an eternal law.
24. Whatever is obtained or preserved by the members of a fellowship, or spent on behalf of the
18. Ratn. p. 184; Col. Dig. III, 2, 22 ; Viram. p. 429. 19. Ratn. p. 184; Col. Dig. III, 2, 23; Vîram. p. 429. 20. Ratn. p. 184; Col. Dig. III, 2, 24. 21. Ratn. p. 185; Col. Dig. III, 2, 27; Viv. p. 110.
22. Ratn. p. 186; Col. Dig. III, 2, 30; Viv. p. 116. The commentators observe that gifts obtained from a king are meant.
23, 24. Ratn. pp. 186, 187; Col. Dig. III, 2, 31; Viram. p. 432. For prakalpitam in 24, 'what is spent,' the last two works read rinamkritam, 'what is borrowed.'
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