Zend Avesta Part 03

SR No.: 007673
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: L H Mills
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1887
Total Pages: 2618
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 49 MB

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V, 6.
RESUMPTION OF GIFT; SERVICE.
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FIFTH TITLE OF LAW.
BREACH OF A CONTRACT OF SERVICE. *1. If a man has promised to render service and fails to render it, it is termed Breach of a Contract of Service, a title of law.
*2. The sages have distinguished five sorts of attendants according to law. Among these are four sorts of labourers; the slaves (are the fifth category, of which there are) fifteen species.
* 3. A student, an apprentice, a hired servant, and fourthly, an official; these must be regarded as labourers; slaves are those born in the house and the rest.
* 4. The sages have declared that the state of dependence is common to all these; but that their respective position and income depends on their particular caste and occupation.
* 5. Know that there are two sorts of occupations ; pure work and impure work. Impure work is that done by slaves. Pure work is that done by labourers.
*6. Sweeping the gateway, the privy, the road,
V, 1-4. Persons bound to obedience. A.
3. 'A student,' one studying divine science. A pupil,' an. apprentice. Viramitrodaya, &c.
4. Their respective position depends on their caste, and their income depends on their occupation. A.
5-7. Unclean occupations. A.
6. The term sweeping' has to be construed with all four nouns, the gateway and the rest. The privy,' i.e. a hole or other receptacle of impure substances. The place for rubbish,' i.e. a place where the dust and other sweepings from the house are deposited. Viramitrodaya.
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