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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FARGARD XIII.
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29 (80). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If there be in the house of a worshipper of Mazda a mad dog that bites without barking, what shall the worshippers of Mazda do ?
30 (82). Ahura Mazda answered : 'They shall put a wooden collar around his neck, and they shall tie thereto a muzzle, an asti' thick if the wood be hard, two astis thick if it be soft. To that collar they shall tie it; by the two sides ? of the collar they shall tie it.
31 (86). If they shall not do so, and the mad dog that bites without barking, smite a sheep or wound a man, the dog shall pay for the wound of the wounded as for wilful murder 3.
32 (88). 'If the dog shall smite a sheep or wound a man, they shall cut off his right ear.
'If he shall smite another sheep or wound another man, they shall cut off his left ear.
33 (90). 'If he shall smite a third sheep or wound a third man, they shall make a cut in his right foot". If he shall smite a fourth sheep or wound a fourth man, they shall make a cut in his left foot.
34 (92). “If he shall for the fifth time smite a sheep or wound a man, they shall cut off his tail.
A measure of unknown amount. Frâmjf reads isti, a brick' thick.
* By the left and the right side of it.
• According to Solon's law, the dog who had bitten a man was to be delivered to him tied up to a block four cubits long (Plutarchus, Solon 24). The Book of Deuteronomy orders the ox who has killed a man to be put to death.
• They only cut off a piece of flesh from the foot' (Brouillons d'Anquetil).
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