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1it is the dog, of all the creatures of the Good Spirit, that most quickly decays into age, while not eating near eating people, and watching goods none of which it receives. Bring ye unto him milk and fat with meat!; this is the right food for the dog *.’ the world, kept back the food of the dogs of shepherds and householders ; or beat and killed them’ (Ardi Viraf XLVIII, translated by Haug). 1 The same food as recommended for the dog by Columella (Ordacea farina cum sero, VII, 12; cf. Virgil, Pasce sero pingui, Georg. III, 406). * «Whenever one eats bread one must put aside three mouthfuls and give them to the dog . . . for among all the poor there is none poorer than the dog’ (Saddar 31). FARGARD XIII. 163 V 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 *. 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. Framjf 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). M 2 164 VEND{DAD. ‘Therefore they shall tie a muzzle to the collar; by the two sides of the collar they shall tie it If they shall not do so, and the mad dog that bites without barking, smite a sheep or wound a man, he shall pay for the wound of the wounded as for wilful murder.’ 35 (97). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If there be in the house of a worshipper of Mazda a mad dog, who has no scent, what shall the worshippers of Mazda do? Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ They shall attend him to heal him, in the same manner as they would do for one of the faithful’ 36 (100). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If they try to heal him and fail, what shall the worshippers of Mazda do?
2Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ They shall attend him to heal him, in the same manner as they would do for one of the faithful’ 36 (100). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If they try to heal him and fail, what shall the worshippers of Mazda do? 37 (102). 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. 38 (102). ‘If they shall not do so, the scentless dog may fall into a hole, or a well, or a precipice, or a river, or a canal, and come to grief: if he come to grief so, they shall be therefore Peshétanus. VI. 39 (106). ‘The dog, O Spitama Zarathustra! I, Ahura Mazda, have made self-clothed and self-shod; watchful and wakeful; and sharp-toothed; born to take his food from man and to watch over man’s goods. I, Ahura Mazda, have made the dog strong FARGARD XIII 165 of body against the evil-doer, when sound of mind and watchful over your goods. 40 (112). ‘And whosoever shall awake at his voice, O Spitama Zarathustra! neither shall the thief nor the wolf carry anything from his house, without his being warned; the wolf shall be smitten and torn to pieces; he is driven away, he melts away like snow".’ VII. 41 (115). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Which of the two wolves deserves more to be killed, the one that a he-dog begets of a she-wolf, or the one that a he-wolf begets of a she-dog ? Ahura Mazda answered: ‘Of these two wolves, the one that a he-dog begets of a she-wolf deserves more to be killed than the one that a he-wolf begets of a she-dog. 42 (117). ‘For the dogs born therefrom fall on the shepherd's dog, on the house-dog, on the Vohunazga dog, on the trained dog, and destroy the folds; such dogs are more murderous, more mischievous, more destructive to the folds than any other dogs *. 43 (121). ‘And the wolves born therefrom fall on the shepherd’s dog, on the house-dog, on the Vohunazga dog, on the trained dog, and destroy the folds; such wolves are more murderous, more * Doubtful. s ‘Ultroque gravis succedere tigrim Ausa canis, majore tulit de sanguine foetum. Sed praeceps virtus ipsa venabitur aula: Ille tibi et pecudum multo cum sanguine crescet.’ Gratius Faliscus, Cyneg. 165 seq. 166 VEND{DAD. mischievous, more destructive to the folds than any other wolves. 5 “ MHA 27. VIII. / 44 (124). ‘A dog has the characters of eight sorts of people :-— ‘He has the character of a priest, ‘ He has the character of a warrior, ‘He has the character of a husbandman, ‘He has the character of a strolling singer, ‘He has the character of a thief, ‘He has the character of a disu, ‘He has the character of a courtezan, ‘He has the character of a child.
345 (126). ‘ He eats the refuse, like a priest’; he is easily satisfied?, like a priest; he is patient, like a priest; he wants only a small piece of bread, like a priest; in these things he is like unto a priest. ‘He marches in front, like a warrior; he fights for the beneficent cow, like a warrior®; he goes first out of the house, like a warrior‘; in these things he is like unto a warrior. 46 (135). ‘He is watchful and sleeps lightly, like a husbandman; he goes first out of the house, like a husbandman®; he returns last into the house, like a husbandman *; in these things he is like unto a husbandman. ‘He is fond of singing, like a strolling singer’; ' A wandering priest (see p. 161, n. 1). 2 *Good treatment makes him joyous’ (Comm.) 3 ‘He keeps away the wolf and the thief’ (Comm.) ‘ This clause is, as it seems, repeated here by mistake from § 46. 5 When taking the cattle out of the stables. ® When bringing the cattle back to the stables. 7 The so-called Looris (s,3} of nowadays. FARGARD XIII. 167 he wounds him who gets too near’, like a strolling singer; he is ill-trained, like a strolling singer; he is changeful, like a strolling singer; in these things he is like unto a strolling singer. 47 (143). ‘He is fond of darkness, like a thief; he prowls about in darkness, like a thief; he is a shameless eater, like a thief; he is therefore an unfaithful keeper, like a thief*; in these things he is like unto a thief. ‘He is fond of darkness like a disu*; he prowls about in darkness, like a disu; he is a shameless eater, like a disu; he is therefore an unfaithful keeper, like a disu; in these things he is like unto a disu. 48 (153). ‘ He is fond of singing, like a courtezan ; he wounds him who gets too near, like a courtezan ; he roams along the roads, like a courtezan; he is ill-trained, like a courtezan; he is changeful, like a courtezan‘; in these things he is like unto a courtezan. ‘He is fond of sleep, like a child; he is tender like snow 5, like a child; he is full of tongue, like a child ; he digs the earth with his paws®, like a child; in these things he is like unto a child. 1 He insults or robs the passer by, like a Loori—‘ The Looris wander in the world, seeking their life, bed-fellows and fellowtravellers of the dogs and the wolves, ever on the roads to rob day and night’ (Firdausi). * “When one trusts him with something, he eats it up’ (Comm.) ® According to Framjf, ‘a wild beast.’ * The description of the courtezan follows closely that of the singer: in the East a public songstress is generally a prostitute. Loori means both a singer and a prostitute. ° Doubtful. 168 VENDIDAD. IX. 49 (163). ‘If those two dogs of mine, the shepherd's dog and the house-dog, pass by any of my houses, let them never be kept away from it. ‘For no house could subsist on the earth made by Ahura, but for those two dogs of mine, the shepherd's dog and the house-dog'.’ X.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1it is the dog, of all the creatures of the Good Spirit, that most quickly decays into age, while not eating near eating people, and watching goods none of which it receives. Bring ye unto him milk and fat with meat!; this is the right food for the dog *.’ the world, kept back the food of the dogs of shepherds and householders ; or beat and killed them’ (Ardi Viraf XLVIII, translated by Haug). 1 The same food as recommended for the dog by Columella (Ordacea farina cum sero, VII, 12; cf. Virgil, Pasce sero pingui, Georg. III, 406). * «Whenever one eats bread one must put aside three mouthfuls and give them to the dog . . . for among all the poor there is none poorer than the dog’ (Saddar 31). FARGARD XIII. 163 V 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 *. 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. Framjf 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). M 2 164 VEND{DAD. ‘Therefore they shall tie a muzzle to the collar; by the two sides of the collar they shall tie it If they shall not do so, and the mad dog that bites without barking, smite a sheep or wound a man, he shall pay for the wound of the wounded as for wilful murder.’ 35 (97). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If there be in the house of a worshipper of Mazda a mad dog, who has no scent, what shall the worshippers of Mazda do? Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ They shall attend him to heal him, in the same manner as they would do for one of the faithful’ 36 (100). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If they try to heal him and fail, what shall the worshippers of Mazda do?
2Ahura Mazda answered: ‘ They shall attend him to heal him, in the same manner as they would do for one of the faithful’ 36 (100). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If they try to heal him and fail, what shall the worshippers of Mazda do? 37 (102). 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. 38 (102). ‘If they shall not do so, the scentless dog may fall into a hole, or a well, or a precipice, or a river, or a canal, and come to grief: if he come to grief so, they shall be therefore Peshétanus. VI. 39 (106). ‘The dog, O Spitama Zarathustra! I, Ahura Mazda, have made self-clothed and self-shod; watchful and wakeful; and sharp-toothed; born to take his food from man and to watch over man’s goods. I, Ahura Mazda, have made the dog strong FARGARD XIII 165 of body against the evil-doer, when sound of mind and watchful over your goods. 40 (112). ‘And whosoever shall awake at his voice, O Spitama Zarathustra! neither shall the thief nor the wolf carry anything from his house, without his being warned; the wolf shall be smitten and torn to pieces; he is driven away, he melts away like snow".’ VII. 41 (115). O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! Which of the two wolves deserves more to be killed, the one that a he-dog begets of a she-wolf, or the one that a he-wolf begets of a she-dog ? Ahura Mazda answered: ‘Of these two wolves, the one that a he-dog begets of a she-wolf deserves more to be killed than the one that a he-wolf begets of a she-dog. 42 (117). ‘For the dogs born therefrom fall on the shepherd's dog, on the house-dog, on the Vohunazga dog, on the trained dog, and destroy the folds; such dogs are more murderous, more mischievous, more destructive to the folds than any other dogs *. 43 (121). ‘And the wolves born therefrom fall on the shepherd’s dog, on the house-dog, on the Vohunazga dog, on the trained dog, and destroy the folds; such wolves are more murderous, more * Doubtful. s ‘Ultroque gravis succedere tigrim Ausa canis, majore tulit de sanguine foetum. Sed praeceps virtus ipsa venabitur aula: Ille tibi et pecudum multo cum sanguine crescet.’ Gratius Faliscus, Cyneg. 165 seq. 166 VEND{DAD. mischievous, more destructive to the folds than any other wolves. 5 “ MHA 27. VIII. / 44 (124). ‘A dog has the characters of eight sorts of people :-— ‘He has the character of a priest, ‘ He has the character of a warrior, ‘He has the character of a husbandman, ‘He has the character of a strolling singer, ‘He has the character of a thief, ‘He has the character of a disu, ‘He has the character of a courtezan, ‘He has the character of a child.
345 (126). ‘ He eats the refuse, like a priest’; he is easily satisfied?, like a priest; he is patient, like a priest; he wants only a small piece of bread, like a priest; in these things he is like unto a priest. ‘He marches in front, like a warrior; he fights for the beneficent cow, like a warrior®; he goes first out of the house, like a warrior‘; in these things he is like unto a warrior. 46 (135). ‘He is watchful and sleeps lightly, like a husbandman; he goes first out of the house, like a husbandman®; he returns last into the house, like a husbandman *; in these things he is like unto a husbandman. ‘He is fond of singing, like a strolling singer’; ' A wandering priest (see p. 161, n. 1). 2 *Good treatment makes him joyous’ (Comm.) 3 ‘He keeps away the wolf and the thief’ (Comm.) ‘ This clause is, as it seems, repeated here by mistake from § 46. 5 When taking the cattle out of the stables. ® When bringing the cattle back to the stables. 7 The so-called Looris (s,3} of nowadays. FARGARD XIII. 167 he wounds him who gets too near’, like a strolling singer; he is ill-trained, like a strolling singer; he is changeful, like a strolling singer; in these things he is like unto a strolling singer. 47 (143). ‘He is fond of darkness, like a thief; he prowls about in darkness, like a thief; he is a shameless eater, like a thief; he is therefore an unfaithful keeper, like a thief*; in these things he is like unto a thief. ‘He is fond of darkness like a disu*; he prowls about in darkness, like a disu; he is a shameless eater, like a disu; he is therefore an unfaithful keeper, like a disu; in these things he is like unto a disu. 48 (153). ‘ He is fond of singing, like a courtezan ; he wounds him who gets too near, like a courtezan ; he roams along the roads, like a courtezan; he is ill-trained, like a courtezan; he is changeful, like a courtezan‘; in these things he is like unto a courtezan. ‘He is fond of sleep, like a child; he is tender like snow 5, like a child; he is full of tongue, like a child ; he digs the earth with his paws®, like a child; in these things he is like unto a child. 1 He insults or robs the passer by, like a Loori—‘ The Looris wander in the world, seeking their life, bed-fellows and fellowtravellers of the dogs and the wolves, ever on the roads to rob day and night’ (Firdausi). * “When one trusts him with something, he eats it up’ (Comm.) ® According to Framjf, ‘a wild beast.’ * The description of the courtezan follows closely that of the singer: in the East a public songstress is generally a prostitute. Loori means both a singer and a prostitute. ° Doubtful. 168 VENDIDAD. IX. 49 (163). ‘If those two dogs of mine, the shepherd's dog and the house-dog, pass by any of my houses, let them never be kept away from it. ‘For no house could subsist on the earth made by Ahura, but for those two dogs of mine, the shepherd's dog and the house-dog'.’ X.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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