Zend Avesta Part 01

SR No.: 007671
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Darmesteter
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1895
Total Pages: 2695
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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X, 1.
ORDEALS.
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25. The (ordeal by) fire must not be administered to lepers, to infirm persons, or to blacksmiths;
26. Nor must it ever be administered in autumn or summer.
27. The (ordeal by) poison must not be administered to lepers, bilious persons, or Brâhmanas;
28. Nor during the rainy season.
29. The (ordeal by) water must not be administered to persons afflicted with phlegm or (another) illness, to the timid, to the asthmatic, nor to those who gain their subsistence from water (such as fishermen and the like);
30. Nor during (the two cold seasons) Hemanta and Sisira (or from middle of November to middle of March);
31. The (ordeal by) sacred libation must not be administered to atheists;
32. Nor when the country is afflicted with disease or pestilence.
33. Let the judge summon the defendant at the time of sunrise, after having fasted on the previous day and bathed in his clothes, and make him go through all the ordeals in the presence of images of) the gods and of the assessors and other) Brâhmanas.
1. Now follows the (rule regarding the ordeal by) balance.
29. Nand. infers from a text of Narada (not found in his Institutes), that the plural is made use of in this Sütra in order to include women, children, sickly, old, and feeble persons.
32. According to Nand., the particle ka is used here in order to include fire, wind, grasshoppers, and other plagues.
X. 5, 6. Y. II, 100.
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