Sacred Laws of Aryas

SR No.: 007687
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Gorge Buhler
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1897
Total Pages: 1979
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 36 MB

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17 (54). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If she be near her time, which is the worshipper of Mazda that shall support her?
18 (56). Ahura Mazda answered: 'If a man come near unto a damsel, either dependent on the chief of the family or not dependent, either delivered [unto a husband] or not delivered, and she conceives by him, so long shall he support her, until the child be born 1.
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19 (58). If he shall not support her 2..
'It lies with the faithful to look in the same way after every pregnant female, either two-footed or fourfooted, two-footed woman or four-footed bitch.'
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20 (61). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If (a bitch 3) be near her time, which is the worshipper of Mazda that shall support her?
21 (63). Ahura Mazda answered: 'He whose house stands nearest, the care of supporting her is his; so long shall he support her, until the whelps be born.
22 (65). 'If he shall not support her, so that the
1 § 18=§ 15.
The sentence is left unfinished: Frâmjî fills it with the words in § 16, so that the child,' &c. It seems as if §§ 17, 18 were no part of the original text, and as if § 17 were a mere repetition of § 20, which being wrongly interpreted as referring to a woman would have brought about the repetition of § 15 as an answer. See § 20.
The subject is wanting in the text: it is supplied from the Commentary and from the sense.
The bitch is lying on the high road: the man whose house has its door nearest shall take care of her. If she dies, he shall carry her off [to dispose of the body according to the law]. One must support her for at least three nights: if one cannot support her any longer, one intrusts her to a richer man' (Comm. and Frâmjî).
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