The new Bundahis, Bahman Yast, and Shayast Los angeles-Shayast, transl

Dadistan-we Dinik (or Religious Feedback out of Manuskihar young buck regarding Yudan-Yim, Dastur of Pars and you may Kirman, An excellent

PAHLAVI Messages. Area We. EW Western (1880) SBE 5. Oxford: Clarendon. So it and extra amounts convert thriving theological and legal messages (just like the known in the 1880s) regarding Zoroastrianism, assumed in order to be a consequence of Avestan texts now lost. Translator commentary towards of many problems and you will uncertainties off their really works. Notes here are very tentative. Bundahis (or even the Brand-new Manufacturing). ch. XV: 1-5 (transl. pp. 52-54), production tale, earliest man and you may basic woman, and you can a forest “whose fresh fruit is this new ten types of man” – having note to XV: 29 (pp. 59-60) where footnote six covers ten styles of ‘monsters’, remembering tales out-of uncommon races inside India. Note along with racial differentiation inside ch. XXIII: 1-dos (p. 87), now really offensive. Shayast La-Shayast (or even the Correct and Poor). ch. II: 97, fnt.5 (p. 270), definitions out of ‘armest’, along with ‘lame, crippled, immobility’. V: 1-2 (pp. 290-91) ways level out-of kids’ obligation having wrong chatter during the prayer time: up to five years, no blame; from four so you’re able to seven, e into the dad; seven so you’re able to ten, higher level of youth’s responsibility. V: eight (pp. 292-93) excuses deaf-and-dumb person that don’t make correct reaction to prayers. VI: 1-2, “The fresh deaf and dumb and you will powerless” (‘armest’: footnote 2 gives probable meaning here, “an enthusiastic idiot, otherwise nuts person”), regardless if regarding best habits and you may mood, “try incapable of carrying out a performs”. X: 35 (p. 332), a lady was fit for particular priestly duties certainly women; footnote six cites Avestan passageway in which “people lady who’s not feeble-minded” can do some priestly responsibilities to have youngsters.

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PAHLAVI Texts. Area II. The latest Dadistan-we Dinik and the Epistles away from Manuskihar, transl. EW West (1882) SBE 18. Oxford: Clarendon. D. 881). ch. LXII: 4, into the inheritance, generally seems to advise that a beneficial son (otherwise their spouse) “who is blind in eyes, otherwise crippled [armest – find early in the day annotation] in feet, or maimed in both his give” get double the newest show off an able-bodied child, a kind of confident discrimination allegedly on the basis of you desire. Epistles away from Manuskihar. Epistle II, ch. I: 13 (p. 329), ref. in order to “Zaratust the fresh new clubfooted (apafrobd)”. Footnote 2 suggests a recent people titled Z., “who’d endeavoured in order to keep hidden the deformity you to definitely disqualified him” about large priesthood. Get a hold of including Addition (p. xxvi). Appendix. III, on the concept of Khvetuk-Das, ‘next-of-kin marriage’. p. 407 discussing dangers of divorce or separation, says “vice and you will ripoff together with misery from deformity” because the flaws which may secretly getting attributed to a person.

PAHLAVI Messages. Part III. Dina-we Mainog-i Khirad; Sikand-Gumanik Vigar; Unfortunate Dar, transl. EW Western (1885) SBE 24. Oxford: Clarendon. Dina-i Mainog-we Khirad (or Opinions of Spirit regarding Understanding). Ch. XV: 1-6 and you may Irak Еѕene koje datiraju footnote dos (p. 42), relates to “the poorest and more than remote (armesttum) person” (find before annotation towards the ‘armest’) who maintains sincerity for the thought, phrase and you will action, will have a good works imputed so you can your even if incapable of indeed performing such works. Ch. XXVI: 4-6, (p. 56), the fresh blind person that enjoys attained reading and you can information “will be thought to be sound-eyed”. XXXVII: 36 (p. 75), blessedness of 1 “whom provides accommodations accommodation to your sick and you may secluded [‘armest’] and investors”. Sikand-Gumanik Vigar (or the Question-Dispelling Explanation). V: 63-64 (p. 144), if the an eye, ear, nostrils, limb etc is disabled, among most other body organ is not any substitute. X: 64 (p. 170), mention of the “guidelines gestures” one of ways that Zoroaster preached and pretty sure Queen Gustasp. XII: 64-70 (p. 207), loss of sight figures with dark, lack of knowledge etc from inside the a summary of “demoniacal distinct features”. Sad Dar of one’s Hundred Subjects. Ch. 326-27), punishment having theft become amputation off ear canal and (at the 3rd offence) away from right hand, as well as an excellent and prison sentence.