Zend Avesta Part 02

SR No.: 007672
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

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DÎNKARD, BOOK VIII.
mankind; and the progress of ruin and misery in the world is owing to unauthorisedly assaulting one another. 3. Advice to mankind about abstaining therefrom, with an estimate of an authorised assault, and, again, for a slight assault and no assault. 4.
To stand magisterially, even opposed to the unmagisterial, with freedom from hurt and loss to oneself; and to abstain altogether, likewise, from the most innocuous (anakhragûnôtům) assault even upon an unmagisterial. person.
5. In all magisterial investigation (patkâr-radth) -of which, when the custom that exists is established judicially, the substance is two statements, which are verbal and demonstrable, that subsist in different combinations—there are four species : the verbal and demonstrable, the verbal which is not demonstrable, the demonstrable which is not verbal, and that which is neither verbal nor yet demonstrable. 6. In the arguments (sâ mân) which are allotted as verbal are four species, the dispute having different arguments and different assertions which are for unmagisterial investigation, for one's own priestly authority (rado), for another good man - three of such being requisite?—and also for other evidence. 7. And in those which are allotted as demonstrable are six species, and for an unmagisterial person the assertions, like the previous species which are on the same subject, are twelve? 8. Of
1 Evidently referring to arbitrators with an umpire.
? Reading hano gôkayih, but hano is an unusual form. Perhaps agôkâyîh, want of evidence,' would be more suitable to the context.
So the MS., but 'four' would suit the context better, and the two Pahlavi ciphers do not differ much in shape.
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