New Bundahis, Bahman Yast, and Shayast La-Shayast, transl
Dadistan-we Dinik (or Spiritual Viewpoints away from Manuskihar son out-of Yudan-Yim, Dastur out of Pars and you will Kirman, An effective
PAHLAVI Messages. Part I. EW West (1880) SBE 5. Oxford: Clarendon. That it and extra amounts translate enduring theological and courtroom messages (given that understood throughout the 1880s) away from Zoroastrianism, assumed to result of Avestan messages now lost. Translator comments towards of numerous problems and you can concerns from their work. Cards here are extremely tentative. Bundahis (or even the Brand spanking new Production). ch. XV: 1-5 (transl. pp. 52-54), design facts, very first people and you will very first woman, and you can a forest “whoever fruits are new ten varieties of guy” – that have mention in order to XV: 29 (pp. 59-60) in which footnote six talks about ten types of ‘monsters’, recalling stories out of uncommon racing when you look at the India. Notice in addition to racial differentiation in ch. XXIII: 1-2 (p. 87), now grossly offending. Shayast Los angeles-Shayast (or even the Proper and you can Incorrect). ch. II: 97, fnt.5 (p. 270), meanings of ‘armest’, including ‘lame, crippled, immobility’. V: 1-2 (pp. 290-91) implies stages out-of children’s obligations to own incorrect chatter through the prayer day: around 5 years, zero blame; from four so you can seven, elizabeth to your father; eight in order to fifteen, higher amount of youth’s obligations. V: 7 (pp. 292-93) excuses deaf and dumb person who usually do not create best reaction to prayers. VI: 1-dos, “The latest deaf-and-dumb and you may powerless” (‘armest’: footnote 2 provides probable definition right here, “an enthusiastic idiot, or nuts person”), even in the event out of correct actions and you can state of mind, “was incapable of carrying out a performs”. X: thirty five (p. 332), a woman try fit for specific priestly commitments certainly women; footnote six alludes to Avestan passageway where “people lady who isn’t feeble-minded” can create specific priestly duties to possess students.
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PAHLAVI Messages. Part II. The newest Dadistan-we Dinik together with Epistles from Manuskihar, transl. EW Western (1882) SBE 18. Oxford: Clarendon. D. 881). ch. LXII: 4, for the genetics, appears to recommend that a child (or their wife) “that is blind in attention, or crippled [armest – find past annotation] both in feet, or maimed both in their hands” receives twice brand new share of a ready-bodied son, a variety of self-confident discrimination allegedly based on you desire. Epistles out of Manuskihar. Epistle II, ch. I: thirteen (p. 329), ref. to “Zaratust the fresh clubfooted (apafrobd)”. Footnote dos implies a recently available individual named Z., “who’d endeavoured in order to keep hidden the deformity one disqualified your” throughout the highest priesthood. Come across also Addition (p. xxvi). Appendix. III, toward meaning of Khvetuk-Das, ‘next-of-kin marriage’. p. 407 revealing dangers of divorce proceedings, states “vice and scam additionally the agony out-of deformity” due to the fact defects that may privately end up being related to a man.
PAHLAVI Messages. Part III. Dina-we Mainog-i Khirad; Sikand-Gumanik Vigar; Unfortunate Dar, transl. EW West (1885) SBE 24. Oxford: Clarendon. Dina-i Mainog-i Khirad (or Feedback of Spirit out-of Skills). Ch. XV: 1-6 and footnote 2 (p. 42), means “the poorest and most remote (armesttum) person” (find earlier annotation toward ‘armest’) which retains sincerity within the imagine, word and you can action, get an effective functions imputed to help you your regardless if struggling to indeed starting particularly works. Ch. XXVI: 4-6, (p. 56), the fresh blind individual that has actually achieved studying and you may knowledge “is going to be regarded as sound-eyed”. XXXVII: thirty six (p. 75), blessedness of a single “exactly who provides hotels housing towards ill and you may secluded [‘armest’] and you may investors” baДџlantД±larД± bul. Sikand-Gumanik Vigar (and/or Doubt-Dispelling Explanation). V: 63-64 (p. 144), in the event that a close look, ear, nostrils, limb etc was handicapped, among other organ is not any substitute. X: 64 (p. 170), mention of “instructions gestures” certainly ways Zoroaster preached and you can sure King Gustasp. XII: 64-70 (p. 207), loss of sight data that have dark, ignorance etc in a listing of “demoniacal distinct features”. Sad Dar of your Hundred Subjects. Ch. 326-27), penalties for thieves become amputation out-of ear and you may (within third offence) of right-hand, together with a superb and you will prison sentence.