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CHAPTER XXXVIII, 14-29.
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shall perform their duty; likewise the sin owing to heedlessness. 22. About giving forth a pointed thing lawfully, and a wound owing to not giving it forth lawfully; lawfully taking and giving away a plate of broken victuals (padkhar), and a wound owing to doing it unlawfully; and whatever is on the same subject. 23. About the appointed place (dâdgâh) of a horse-course and its distance from the middle of a town, the nature of the horse-course, the training (farhang) and masters of mancuvres (padân-i farhângâně) when in it, the shooting of arrows on the horse-course, and the wound which occurs to man or animal, how it is when culpable, and how it is when not culpable. 24. About admitting a listener; where, why, and how he is to be admitted ; and the guilt or innocence as regards a wound owing to him.
25. About the mode of making a sacred threadgirdle ', and the harm from an unusual formation of it. 26. About lawfully tying it, without the culpability (vazagih) of unauthorised action ; also when they do not tie it lawfully, but the girdling is knotted (viragt-aito) and twisted owing to culpability (vazagànih); and whatever is on the same subject.
27. About lawfully scratching with the nails, and the harm from unlawfully scratching. 28. About lawfully attending to a fire on the road; and, when one arrives at a ford through water, the sin which arises, as to fire, from not lawfully caring about the fire.
29. About warriors who mingle together in panic (mazangih) and darkness ; injury happens to one
See Dd. XXXIX, i n.
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