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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Therefore they shall tie a muzzle to the collar ; by the two sides of the collar they shall tie it. If they shall not do so, and the mad dog that bites without barking, smite a sheep or wound a man, he shall pay for the wound of the wounded as for wilful murder.
35 (97). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If there be in the house of a worshipper of Mazda a mad dog, who has no scent, what shall the worshippers of Mazda do ?
Ahura Mazda answered: “They shall attend him to heal him, in the same manner as they would do for one of the faithful.'
36 (100). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If they try to heal him and fail, what shall the worshippers of Mazda do ?
37 (102). Ahura Mazda answered: They shall put a wooden collar around his neck, and they shall tie thereto a muzzle, an asti thick if the wood be hard, two astis thick if it be soft. To that collar they shall tie it; by the two sides of the collar they shall tie it.
38 (102). If they shall not do so, the scentless dog may fall into a hole, or a well, or a precipice, or a river, or a canal, and come to grief: if he come to grief so, they shall be therefore Peshotanus.
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39 (106). "The dog, O Spitama Zarathustra ! I, Ahura Mazda, have made self-clothed and self-shod; watchful and wakeful ; and sharp-toothed; born to take his food from man and to watch over man's goods. 1, Ahura Mazda, have made the dog strong
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