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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QUOTATIONS FROM NÂRADA.
VI, 57
57. Among fifty runners, those two who are the quickest runners should be appointed to fetch the arrow.
58. Let a strong man, who may be a Brahman, Kshatriya or Vaisya, and must be free from affection and hatred, be placed in water reaching his navel, (standing erect) like a pillar.
59. (The accused), thoroughly controlled in mind, shall seize the thighs of that man under water, and stand in it composed all the time till the (runner) appointed to fetch (the arrow) has returned.
60. Then let men strictly devoted to veracity and virtue, acquainted with the application of legal rules, and free from affection and hatred, see that everything is fair.
61. An intelligent, pious-minded man should descend into the water and duly address (the deity of water) with the following auspicious texts.
61 b. The sacred prayer (runs as follows). 'Om, adoration to Justice.
62. “Thou, O lord of waters, who art so pleasantly
57. M. Macn. X, 4, 12. 58. Vîram. p. 269.
59. Nepalese Nârada. toyam adho manushyasya grihîtvora susamyatah I tâvat tishtheta niyato yâvat prâptah samapakî il
60. Minor Narada I, 7, 8 (p. 51). dharmasthânam tatah kuryuh satyadharmaparayanâh i dharmasastravidhânagñâ râgadveshavivargitâh 11
61. Nepalese Nârada. avatîrya gale vidvân snâtah prayatamanasah Isrâvayeta yathânyâyam ebhir mantrapadaih subhaih I The correctness of this reading seems doubtful. According to the other authorities, the prayer is to be recited by the judge or by the accused.
61 b. Nepalese Narada. dharmamantrah i om namo dharmaya
62. Nepalese Nârada. yonis tvam asi (yatas tvam asti MS.) bhàtânam galesa sukhasítala i trâyasvainam naram pâpât pasyasi tvam subhâsubham 11
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