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he shall pay for his wound the penalty for wilful murder 1.
39 (102). If he treat with the knife a worshipper of the Daevas and he recover; if he treat with the knife a second worshipper of the Daêvas and he recover; if for the third time he treat with the knife a worshipper of the Daêvas and he recover; then he is fit for ever and ever 2.
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40 (104). He may henceforth at his will attend worshippers of Mazda; he may at his will treat with the knife worshippers of Mazda, and heal them with the knife.
VII b.
41 (105). 'A healer shall heal a priest for a blessing of the just; he shall heal the master of a house for the value of an ox of low value; he shall heal the lord of a borough for the value of an ox of average value; he shall heal the lord of a town for the value of an ox of high value; he shall heal the lord of a province for the value of a chariot and four".
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42 (110). He shall heal the wife of the master of a house for the value of a she-ass; he shall heal the wife of the lord of a borough for the value of
1 For baodhô-varsta, literally, 'done with full conscience.' 'Some say, One who has been qualified may become disqualified; one who has been disqualified shall never become qualified' (Comm. ad § 43).
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The priest will say to him: Be holy! (that is to say, be one of the blest!) Thus he will become holy (i.e. he will go to Paradise); there is no equivalent in money. Some say, It is given when the priest has not 3000 stîrs' (Comm.)
• A group of several houses; Aspendiârji and Anquetil say, 'a street.'
A value of seventy stîrs' (Comm.)
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