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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VISHNU.
XXXIII, 2.
2. They are specially dangerous to the order of householders, because they have (houses, wives, and other) property.
3. Man, being overcome by those (three enemies), commits crimes in the highest degree, high crimes, minor crimes, and crimes in the fourth degree;
4. Also crimes effecting loss of caste, crimes degrading to a mixed caste, and crimes rendering the perpetrator unworthy (to receive alms and the like);
5. And crimes causing defilement, and miscellaneous offences.
6. This is the threefold path to hell, destructive of self: carnal desire, wrath, and greed: therefore must a man shun those three vices.
XXXIV. 1. Sexual connection with one's mother, or daughter, or daughter-in-law are crimes in the highest degree.
2. Such criminals in the highest degree should proceed into the flames; for there is not any other way to atone for their crime.
Xxxv. 1. Killing a Brâhmana, drinking spirituous liquor, chastity and the penance for it (see XXVIJI, 48, 49), causes him (Vishnu) to discuss the law of penance (Prayaskitta). This is done in the following section, to which Chapter XXXIV serves as Introduction. (Nand. The section on Prayaskitta extends as far as Chapter LVII.
6. This proverb is also found in the Bhagavad-gîtâ. XVI, 21, and in the Mahâbhârata, V, 1036. See Böhtlingk, Ind. Sprüche, 2645.
XXXV. 1. M. IX, 235; XI, 55; Y. III, 227; Âpast. I, 7, 21, 8; Gaut. XXI, 1. — 2, 3. M. XI, 181; Y. III, 227, 261; Gaut. XXI, 3. - 4. M. XI, 181.
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