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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XXII, 17.
ROBBERY AND VIOLENCE.
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those who appropriate what belongs to the king, and those who cheat an association, are pronounced to be impostors, and punishable as such.
10. Judges passing an unjust sentence, those who live by taking bribes, and those who disappoint: confidence (placed in them): all such persons shall be banished.
11. Those who, without knowing the science of stars, or portents, expound them to the people from avarice, shall be punished by all means.
12. Those who show themselves in public wearing a staff, a skin, and the like insignia of a religious order), and injure mankind by deceiving them, shall be corporally punished by the king's officers.
13. Those who by artificially getting up articles of small value cause them to appear very valuable, and deceive women or children (by doing so), shall be punished in proportion to their gain.
14. Those who make false gold or factitious gems or coral shall be compelled to restore their price to the purchaser, and to pay the double amount to the king as a fine.
15. Arbitrators who cheat either party from partiality, avarice or some other motive, and witnesses who give false evidence, shall be compelled to pay twice the amount (in dispute) as a fine.
16. Those who procure gain by means of spells or medicines (shall be compelled to give up) their gain; those who practise incantations with roots shall be banished by the ruler of the land.
17. Housebreakers shall be compelled to relinquish their plunder and be impaled on a stake after
10. Ratn. p. 315. 17. Ratn. p. 317; May. p. 143 ; Vfram. p. 494 ; Viv. p. 166.
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