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155. About the distinction of indigenous and foreign (air va-an-atr) thieves as to cold and the clothing given, and as to sickness avd undergoing remedies. 56. About the hands of a foreigner decmg unfettered for no other reason but care of water and fire, to * A Hasar (Av. hathra) is a measure of distance, as well as of time. This is stated in Farh. Oim, pp. 41, 1. 11-42, 1. 3, thus :-— ‘Of the Hasar there are also several kinds that express measurement. A medium Hasar on the ground, which they call also a Parasang, is a thousand steps of two feet which have to walk. With the lapse of time of a medium Hfsar the day and night are computed.’ Again, p. 43, Il. 1-3 state that ‘of twelve HAsars is the longest day; that day and night in which is the longest day are twelve of the longest HAsars, eighteen of the medium, and twentyfour of the least.’ From this it appears that an average Hsar of distance is a thousand paces, or Roman mile; and an average Hasar of time is one hour and twenty minutes. E 2 52 DINKARD, BOOK VIII. preserve them from blood, filth, and injury (4sip6). 57. About the sin of not restraining him who is the first assailant of two combatants, as soon as his attack is seen. 58. About teaching the peace of renunciation of si#, the bond of worthiness of him of great power even when proffering union in renunciation w7/h him of little power, and whatever is on the same subject. 59. On the nature of responding about the keeping away from one worthy of death which arises through great judiciousness, the reason of keeping, how to keep, avd whatever is on the same subject. 60. And on the nature of responding when they ask in malice about a righteous man, when one knows zs whereabouts, and when ome does not know. 61. About how one is to give a weapon to generals (hén-gé-pad@4n6) and august frontier governors. 62. About authorisedly shooting an arrow at one worthy of death, which is given again for killing Aim to any one unto whom the ferson worthy of death is consigned axd becomes supplicating (lanak6) and goes to the middle of the distance, and they shall afford him assistance and enervate Aim for tt, when, through the three words! which he utters, they do not deliver 42m up again. 63. About one worthy of death who is preserved with great judiciousness when the evidence, which they give before that about him, is through another one worthy of death, avd whatever is on the same subject. 64. About evidence as to witchcraft and destroying a righteous am, that is, in what propor- * Possibly himat, hfikht, hfvarst, ‘good thoughts, good words, and good deeds,’ which would be accepted as a sign of repentance, CHAPTER XIX, 57-XX, 5. 53 tion it is certain or doubtful. 65. About causing the execution of ome worthy of death for entertaining fondness for witchcraft and laughing at witchcraft, and whatever is on the same subject. CuaPTeR XX. Nikédim Nask.
253 tion it is certain or doubtful. 65. About causing the execution of ome worthy of death for entertaining fondness for witchcraft and laughing at witchcraft, and whatever is on the same subject. CuaPTeR XX. Nikédim Nask. 1. Jn the fifth section are twenty-four particulars! about the standing up and going forth of a man with a weapon and angry thoughts towards another man; and also when he takes a beast of burden, saddles 2¢, and sits upon 2¢, takes the rein? (ayékham) in hand and walks away; this, too, that, when he arrives there, he smites that maz, or some one else; and whatever is on the same subject. 2. About what onze has to do when the conversation of two men is of the destruction of a righteous man, of highway robbery, and of the cursing owing thereto ; and whatever is on the same subject. 3. About what one has to do when, of two men who are on the same road, one slays a righteous man; and adout the other when ez zs fearless, and when he zs fearful. 4. About preserving ove worthy of death when it is requisite for medical purposes (bezashkth), though the plaintiff is of a different opinion; and whatever is on the same subject. 5. About the needlessness of plaintiffs axa defendants speaking as to the substance (min tand) of 1 It is not clear whether these twenty-four particulars are to be sought in the details of § 1, or in the whole chapter, or some portion of it. * Merely a guess. 54 DINKARD, BOOK VIII. the law, when the witness and judge is the supreme priest ; the confidence which they may place z7 the decision of the supreme priest, due to his own knowledge and evidence, when, moreover, they have not to atone in the body; azd the want of confidence z another judge when, moreover, ¢hey have to atone in the body, azd the needfulness of plaintiffs and defendants speaking on the substance (va/ tan) of the law, even when the judge is aware of the law. 6. About unauthorised combatants, become mutually sinful, when, to dissipate (stkhtand) a wound of the one, 4e would make the other one worthy of death. 7. About supplies (pishén)? in travelling together, and their renewal ; axd whatever is on the same subject. 8. About inflicting penalties dy magistrates, the assistance of the unmagisterial gzvex to magistrates, the assistance of the magistrates, avd the exemption of these /atter from atonement to those former; likewise about conversation as to an assault, and whatever is on the same subject. 9. About the evasion of penalty dy men at the ¢zme when a sin may be committed, and the arrest. of ¢hezy nearest relations de¢zg important, in whatever measure implicated therein and impossible to consider innocent ; how to confine and make them really coerced to seek a remedy, and whatever is on the same subject. 10. About the powerfulness which comforts in sin where ¢ere is any special worthiness, and the reason
310. About the powerfulness which comforts in sin where ¢ere is any special worthiness, and the reason 1 Compare Pers. bising, Av. fshaoni. In some cases it might perhaps be read pikhvé, and be traced to Av. pithwa. The word often occurs, as in § 11, Chaps. XXIII, 3, 15, XXVI, 10, XXVII, 4,6, XXXI, 25, 36, XXXVII, 5, 7, 22, XLI, 19, 23, XLIII, ro, and its meaning, ‘provision, or nourishment,’ is well ascertained. CHAPTER XX, 6-13. 55 of any worthiness ; the want of power where ¢here is special unworthiness, and the reason of any unworthiness ; the production of the good works of one towards another of the powerful, avd of the sin of one of those lacking power ; avd whatever is on the same subject. 11. About the plaint which ove has to argue, and for the defendant to dispute; the time for making the statement (g6b6) when the defendant does not come, or comes not to conduct the business; the several peculiarities of plaintiff and defendant, the time for conducting dezzg on the day before yesterday, the firm oe and the powerless, the incrimination therein, the death-blow on the exhaustion of the possessions of the plaintiff, and provisions for conducting the legal proceedings; a privileged wife! shall be capable of making a plaint for er husband, and of informing the husband of the plaint; when her property is anything whatever, and nothing is manifest as to that wealth, she is to be admitted for evidence ; and whatever is on the same subject. 12. About the ordeal of those who have atoned, of those undergoing the sacred-twig ordeal, and of those undergoing the heat ordeal, who are pure; the freedom from falsehood of which, each separately, which they, every one of them, request when the ordeal is not that for their own station, but that for the station of others; and whatever is on the same subject. 13. About the object of any evidence, and, on account of the reason of z¢s propriety, the impropriety of any one Jeng without evidence ; ava what- 1 One married to her husband with the parents’ consent, and never betrothed to another, so that she and her children belong to him in both worlds (see Bd. XXXII, 6 n). 56 DINKARD, BOOK VIII.
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.
155. About the distinction of indigenous and foreign (air va-an-atr) thieves as to cold and the clothing given, and as to sickness avd undergoing remedies. 56. About the hands of a foreigner decmg unfettered for no other reason but care of water and fire, to * A Hasar (Av. hathra) is a measure of distance, as well as of time. This is stated in Farh. Oim, pp. 41, 1. 11-42, 1. 3, thus :-— ‘Of the Hasar there are also several kinds that express measurement. A medium Hasar on the ground, which they call also a Parasang, is a thousand steps of two feet which have to walk. With the lapse of time of a medium Hfsar the day and night are computed.’ Again, p. 43, Il. 1-3 state that ‘of twelve HAsars is the longest day; that day and night in which is the longest day are twelve of the longest HAsars, eighteen of the medium, and twentyfour of the least.’ From this it appears that an average Hsar of distance is a thousand paces, or Roman mile; and an average Hasar of time is one hour and twenty minutes. E 2 52 DINKARD, BOOK VIII. preserve them from blood, filth, and injury (4sip6). 57. About the sin of not restraining him who is the first assailant of two combatants, as soon as his attack is seen. 58. About teaching the peace of renunciation of si#, the bond of worthiness of him of great power even when proffering union in renunciation w7/h him of little power, and whatever is on the same subject. 59. On the nature of responding about the keeping away from one worthy of death which arises through great judiciousness, the reason of keeping, how to keep, avd whatever is on the same subject. 60. And on the nature of responding when they ask in malice about a righteous man, when one knows zs whereabouts, and when ome does not know. 61. About how one is to give a weapon to generals (hén-gé-pad@4n6) and august frontier governors. 62. About authorisedly shooting an arrow at one worthy of death, which is given again for killing Aim to any one unto whom the ferson worthy of death is consigned axd becomes supplicating (lanak6) and goes to the middle of the distance, and they shall afford him assistance and enervate Aim for tt, when, through the three words! which he utters, they do not deliver 42m up again. 63. About one worthy of death who is preserved with great judiciousness when the evidence, which they give before that about him, is through another one worthy of death, avd whatever is on the same subject. 64. About evidence as to witchcraft and destroying a righteous am, that is, in what propor- * Possibly himat, hfikht, hfvarst, ‘good thoughts, good words, and good deeds,’ which would be accepted as a sign of repentance, CHAPTER XIX, 57-XX, 5. 53 tion it is certain or doubtful. 65. About causing the execution of ome worthy of death for entertaining fondness for witchcraft and laughing at witchcraft, and whatever is on the same subject. CuaPTeR XX. Nikédim Nask.
253 tion it is certain or doubtful. 65. About causing the execution of ome worthy of death for entertaining fondness for witchcraft and laughing at witchcraft, and whatever is on the same subject. CuaPTeR XX. Nikédim Nask. 1. Jn the fifth section are twenty-four particulars! about the standing up and going forth of a man with a weapon and angry thoughts towards another man; and also when he takes a beast of burden, saddles 2¢, and sits upon 2¢, takes the rein? (ayékham) in hand and walks away; this, too, that, when he arrives there, he smites that maz, or some one else; and whatever is on the same subject. 2. About what onze has to do when the conversation of two men is of the destruction of a righteous man, of highway robbery, and of the cursing owing thereto ; and whatever is on the same subject. 3. About what one has to do when, of two men who are on the same road, one slays a righteous man; and adout the other when ez zs fearless, and when he zs fearful. 4. About preserving ove worthy of death when it is requisite for medical purposes (bezashkth), though the plaintiff is of a different opinion; and whatever is on the same subject. 5. About the needlessness of plaintiffs axa defendants speaking as to the substance (min tand) of 1 It is not clear whether these twenty-four particulars are to be sought in the details of § 1, or in the whole chapter, or some portion of it. * Merely a guess. 54 DINKARD, BOOK VIII. the law, when the witness and judge is the supreme priest ; the confidence which they may place z7 the decision of the supreme priest, due to his own knowledge and evidence, when, moreover, they have not to atone in the body; azd the want of confidence z another judge when, moreover, ¢hey have to atone in the body, azd the needfulness of plaintiffs and defendants speaking on the substance (va/ tan) of the law, even when the judge is aware of the law. 6. About unauthorised combatants, become mutually sinful, when, to dissipate (stkhtand) a wound of the one, 4e would make the other one worthy of death. 7. About supplies (pishén)? in travelling together, and their renewal ; axd whatever is on the same subject. 8. About inflicting penalties dy magistrates, the assistance of the unmagisterial gzvex to magistrates, the assistance of the magistrates, avd the exemption of these /atter from atonement to those former; likewise about conversation as to an assault, and whatever is on the same subject. 9. About the evasion of penalty dy men at the ¢zme when a sin may be committed, and the arrest. of ¢hezy nearest relations de¢zg important, in whatever measure implicated therein and impossible to consider innocent ; how to confine and make them really coerced to seek a remedy, and whatever is on the same subject. 10. About the powerfulness which comforts in sin where ¢ere is any special worthiness, and the reason
310. About the powerfulness which comforts in sin where ¢ere is any special worthiness, and the reason 1 Compare Pers. bising, Av. fshaoni. In some cases it might perhaps be read pikhvé, and be traced to Av. pithwa. The word often occurs, as in § 11, Chaps. XXIII, 3, 15, XXVI, 10, XXVII, 4,6, XXXI, 25, 36, XXXVII, 5, 7, 22, XLI, 19, 23, XLIII, ro, and its meaning, ‘provision, or nourishment,’ is well ascertained. CHAPTER XX, 6-13. 55 of any worthiness ; the want of power where ¢here is special unworthiness, and the reason of any unworthiness ; the production of the good works of one towards another of the powerful, avd of the sin of one of those lacking power ; avd whatever is on the same subject. 11. About the plaint which ove has to argue, and for the defendant to dispute; the time for making the statement (g6b6) when the defendant does not come, or comes not to conduct the business; the several peculiarities of plaintiff and defendant, the time for conducting dezzg on the day before yesterday, the firm oe and the powerless, the incrimination therein, the death-blow on the exhaustion of the possessions of the plaintiff, and provisions for conducting the legal proceedings; a privileged wife! shall be capable of making a plaint for er husband, and of informing the husband of the plaint; when her property is anything whatever, and nothing is manifest as to that wealth, she is to be admitted for evidence ; and whatever is on the same subject. 12. About the ordeal of those who have atoned, of those undergoing the sacred-twig ordeal, and of those undergoing the heat ordeal, who are pure; the freedom from falsehood of which, each separately, which they, every one of them, request when the ordeal is not that for their own station, but that for the station of others; and whatever is on the same subject. 13. About the object of any evidence, and, on account of the reason of z¢s propriety, the impropriety of any one Jeng without evidence ; ava what- 1 One married to her husband with the parents’ consent, and never betrothed to another, so that she and her children belong to him in both worlds (see Bd. XXXII, 6 n). 56 DINKARD, BOOK VIII.
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