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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L, 50.
PENANCES.
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41. If he has (unintentionally) killed a wild animal not carnivorous, (he must give) a heifer.
42. If he has (intentionally) killed an animal not mentioned before, he must subsist upon milk for three days.
43. If he has (unintentionally) killed a bird (not mentioned before), he must eat at night only;
44. Or (if unable to do so), he must give a silver Mâsha.
45. If he has (unintentionally) killed an aquatic animal, he must fast (for a day and a night).
46. If he has killed a thousand (small) animals having bones, or an ox-load of animals that have no bones, he must perform the same penance as for killing a Sudra.
47. But, if he has killed animals having bones, he must (moreover) give some trifle to a Brâhmana (for each animal which he has killed); if he has killed boneless animals, he becomes purified by one stopping of the breath.
48. For cutting (unawares ?) trees yielding fruit (such as the bread-fruit or mango trees), shrubs, creeping or climbing plants, or plants yielding blossoms (such as the jasmine tree), he must mutter a Vedic text (the Gâyatri) a hundred times.
49. For killing (unintentionally) insects bred in rice or other food, or in (sweets and the like, or in liquids (such as molasses), or elsewhere (in water and so on), or in flowers or fruits, the penance consists in eating clarified butter.
50. If a man has wantonly cut such plants as
46, 47. Nand. thinks that the former Sloka refers to intentional, and the latter to unintentional murder of those animals.
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