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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25 (66). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If a man shall give bad food to a house-dog, what is the penalty that he shall pay?
Ahura Mazda answered : Ninety stripes with the Aspahê-astra, ninety stripes with the Sraoshó-karana.'
26 (69). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If a man shall give bad food to a Vohunazga dog, what is the penalty that he shall pay?
Ahura Mazda answered: 'Seventy stripes with the Aspahê-astra, seventy stripes with the Sraoshôkarana.'
27 (72). O Maker, of the material world, thou Holy One! If a man shall give bad food to a Tauruna dog, what is the penalty that he shall
pay?
Ahura Mazda answered: ‘Fifty stripes with the Aspahê-astra, fifty stripes with the Sraoshô-karana.
28 (75). “For in this material world, O Spitama Zarathustra ! it is the dog, of all the creatures of the Good Spirit, that most quickly decays into age, while not eating near eating people, and watching goods none of which it receives. Bring ye unto him milk and fat with meat?; this is the right food for the dog ?'
the world, kept back the food of the dogs of shepherds and householders; or beat and killed them' (Ardà Viráf XLVIII, translated by Haug).
1 The same food as recommended for the dog by Columella (Ordacea farina cum sero, VII, 12; cf. Virgil, Pasce sero pingui, Georg. III, 406).
8. Whenever one eats bread one must put aside three mouthfuls and give them to the dog ... for among all the poor there is none poorer than the dog' (Saddar 31).
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