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VI. ERPATISTÂN AND NÍRANGISTÂN.
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If he recite, were it only a word of them,
He escapes being in the number of the Peshôtanus, -
He who shall omit a word of the Gâthas or a stanza,
Shall pay with three strokes (of the Sraoshokarana) or a day's work;
The same on the second omission, the same on the third,
And so on until he let a fourth part of the year go without singing the Gåthas, when it becomes an aredus sin ?
If he let a third part of the year go, his guilt is a hvara 8; if he let a half go, his guilt is a bâzu “; if he let a whole year go, his guilt is a yâta 6.
If afterwards he miss a ratufriti o, he becomes a Peshôtanu.
43. If a man miss a ratufriti of the Gathas, he shall pay for it with three (strokes) or a day's work;
And so on until he let a third part of the year go without singing the Gâthas ............he becomes a Peshôtanu.
44. If a man stay a half year without singing the Gâthas ,
And also prevents another of the faithful from singing the Gathas,
For the half year when he did not sing the Gåthas, he shall be in a state of sin;
Punished with thirty strokes. • The sin of breaking an arm: fifty strokes. • The sin of breaking a leg: seventy strokes. • One of the formulas of glorification to any of the ratus (?). ? To be filled up as in $ 42. • Without celebrating the Gâhân bârs' (Comm.)
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