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a Tanâpühar sin, when with one movement; and after the fourth step as much as one shall walk is a Tanapuhar; and when he sits down and walks on the sin is the same that it would be from his startingpoint (bûnth); and there were some who said it is a Tanapuhar for each league (parasang).
13. At night, when they lie down, the shirt and girdle are to be worn, for they are more protecting for the body, and good for the soul. 14. When they lie down with the shirt and girdle, before sleep one shall utter one Ashem-voha ?, and with every coming and going of the breath (vayo) is a good work of three Srôshô-karanâms ; and if in that
(mQk) over an inner one of thinner leather, when walking out of doors; so that the sin of running in one pair of boots' would be something equivalent to walking out in one's stockings; and this seems all the more probable from the separate account of walking
without boots or stockings,' avimQgak, given in Chap. X, 12. But whatever may have been the original meaning of the word, Parsis nowadays understand that it forbids their walking without shoes; this should be recollected by any European official in India who fancies that Parsis ought to take off their shoes in his presence, as by insisting on such a practice he is compelling them to commit what they believe to be a serious sin.
Assuming that hana, “this,' stands for aê, 'one' (see p. 218, note 3). The amount of sinfulness in walking improperly shod appears to be deduced from that incurred by walking improperly dressed (see $ 10).
See Bund. XX, 2. The same details are given in Chap. X, 24.
The Av. sraosho-karana appears to have been a scourge with which offenders were lashed by the assistant priests (see Vend. III, 125, 129, IV, 38, &c.), and a Srôshô-karanâm was, therefore, originally one lash with a scourge. As the gravity of an offence was measured by the number of lashes administered, when this term was transferred from the temporal to the spiritual gravity of sin, it was considered as the unit of weight by which sins were estimated; and, by a further process of reasoning, the good works
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