Sacred Laws of Aryas

SR No.: 007687
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Gorge Buhler
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1897
Total Pages: 1979
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 36 MB

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an Avaoirista. If he actually smite a man with malicious aforethought, it is an A redus. Upon the fifth Aredus1 he becomes a Peshôtanu.
18 (58). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! He that committeth an Ågerepta, what penalty shall he pay?
Ahura Mazda answered: 'Five stripes with the Aspahê-astra, five stripes with the Sraoshôkarana;
'On the second Âgerepta, ten stripes with the Aspahê-astra, ten stripes with the Sraoshôkarana;
'On the third, fifteen stripes with the Aspahê-astra, fifteen stripes with the Sraoshô-karana.
19 (63). On the fourth, thirty stripes with the Aspahê-astra, thirty stripes with the Sraoshô-karana; 'On the fifth, fifty stripes with the Aspahê-astra, fifty stripes with the Sraoshô-karana;
'On the sixth, sixty stripes with the Aspahê-astra, sixty stripes with the Sraoshô-karana;
'On the seventh, ninety stripes with the Aspahêastra, ninety stripes with the Sraoshô-karana.'
20 (67). If a man commit an Ågerepta for the eighth time, without having atoned for the preceding 3, what penalty shall he pay?
Ahura Mazda answered: 'He is a Peshôtanu: two hundred stripes with the Aspahê-astra, two hundred stripes with the Sraoshô-karana.'
but without wounding him, or inflicts a wound which is healed within three days.
1 Viz. on the sixth commission of it, as appears from § 28.
" He shall receive two hundred stripes, or shall pay 1200 dirhems (see Introd.)
Literally, without having undone the preceding.'
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