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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8 (p. 12). The smallest of those stars is as large as the head of a man of middle size 1.
FRAGMENTS OF THE NASKS.
An ashti in front, as much in depth. There where the sun rises.
There where Ahura Mazda will give
9 (p. 12). 10 (p. 13). 11 (p. 13). you prosperity.
12 (p. 14). He who to a plaintiff does not proffer place, ordeal, and time of appointment * ;
and all the operations of justice, conformable to the law and the rule, worked out by the Ahu and the Ratu, according to the laws of Asha Vahista... 13 (p. 14). He who says to a man: Make amends
unto me.
14 (p. 14). When two men appoint a time'
15 (pp. 14-15). As long as he has life.
16. And the young Gayô-Maratan®.
17. In the time when those men were, O Zarathustra !
'Amongst the stars (says the Greater Bundahish), the larger ones are as large as a kakâî-house (?); the middle stars are as large as a caharakân naptishu (?); the lesser ones are as large as the head of a domestic ox. The moon is as large as a ridingground, two hâsars long; the sun is as large as Irân-Veg' (thus in Anaxagoras' astronomy the sun has the dimensions of Peloponnesus). From a comparison between the Greater Bundahish and the Zend passage quoted in the Farhang it appears that the measurement of the stars was discussed several times and not without slight variations in the Avesta (most likely in the cosmological Dâmdât Nask).
Cf. Vd. XIII, 30.
* This fragment and the two following seem to be taken from the Nîkâtûm Nask.
• The defendant, if conscious of his innocence, will propose that he should go through the whole process of one of the judicial ordeals.
For an ordeal.
'Gayô-Maratan, Gayômard, the first man.
Cf. Yt. XIII, 87.
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