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CONTENTS.
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PAGR 42. Varistan section of the same: trial and execution of a
wizard, trial by ordeal, and particulars about ordeals. 144 43. A miscellaneous section of the same: assistants, wealth
causing imprisonment, confession, disciple and master, penalties, sins owing to the wrathful, an unjust judge and one of long experience; ($ 10) a daughter controlled by parents and one without a guardian, bequeathing property, sin of declining adoption, property of a liberal man and of a damsel, a damsel taken by an idolator and offered to a Masda-worshipper, a mother being guardian of her son's father, providing a high-priest; (820) sin of not providing a husband for an adult daughter, inadvertent sin, worst demonservice and sins, furtherances and destroyers of the world, truth that is wicked, driving spiritual benefit from the world, three kinds of righteous men, sin of defiling water and fire; merit of removing dead matter of men, dogs, and reptiles from water; reptiles may be killed in water, but must be removed to gratify the earth-spirit and vex the demons; ( 30) a well-managed drinking-party, the sin of him who leaves it uproariously, animals produced from the sole-created ox, offerings to the sacred beings; injury to the world by fiends, idolators, and wolves; the necessity of destroying them, advice not to reverence the evil spirits, nor to chatter unseasonably, the
advantage of the ceremonial of the sacred beings 145 44. Vendidad Nask: corresponding with the contents of
fargards I-XI, XIII-XXII . . . . . 152 45. Hâdôkht Nask: recital of Ahunavair, high-priests,
21 chieftainships, duties at periods of the day, season-festivals, superiors, membership of the community, prayers at eating, recitations, invocation, devotion; ($ 10) good attributes and qualities, diligence, righteousness, the chief resource of the
creatures, sayings full of humility . . . . 166 46. Stöd-yast Nask. . . . . . . . 169
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| SR No. | 007672 |
| Book Title | Zend Avesta Part 02 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | James Darmesteter |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1883 |
| Total Pages | 2221 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 41 MB |