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SELECTIONS OF ZAD-SPARAM.
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accomplished (âkardo), are twenty-one; and the Nasks are twenty-one.
5. Then the Gâthas are apportioned into 2781 stanzas (vêkêsto); and the Nasks also into 278 categories, every single category having borne a form like a single verse 2, as regards how much and how anything good is indicated, such as the Patkârradistân3, in which what is legally disputable is reported (pêdâko); the Zâkhmistân, by which the penalty of assault (zâkhm) is reported; the Stôristân, by which the sin and amount of penalty for a wound, as regard beasts of burden and cattle, are reported; the Aratêstâristân, by which battle is reported; the Pasûs-haûrvastân", by which the customary keeping of sheep in control is reported; the Gurdât-zaritunistân ('corn-sowing code'), by which agriculture is reported; the Varistân, by which an ordeal being accomplished is reported; and others of a like description.
and Yênhê-hâtăm, with the seventeen hâs of the five real Gâthas, and either the Yasna of seven hâs, counted as a single item, or the Airyaman, will make up the twenty-one divisions (compare the names applied to each fargard of the Südkar, Varstmânsar, and Bako Nasks in Dk. IX).
1 See § 2 n; here the MS. has 288, by miswriting, in both occurrences of the ciphers.
* Doubtful; the text appears to be as follows:-kolâ ragistako-aê bûrdo san mânâk ak gâh.
* See Dk. VIII, Chap. XVI.
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Equivalent to Zatamistân (ibid. Chap. XVII), see Darmesteter's suggestion (ibid. Chap. XVI, 8 n).
Ibid. Chap. XXIV; here spelt Stôritân by mistake.
• Ibid. Chap. XXVI.
7 Ibid. Chap. XXIII; here written Pasus-haûristân.
Ibid. Chap. XXXI, 30-32.
Ibid. Chap. XLII; here written Varîstân.
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| SR No. | 007682 |
| Book Title | Questions of King Milinda Part 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | T W Rhys Davids |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1894 |
| Total Pages | 2240 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 38 MB |