Dadistan-i Dinik (otherwise Religious Opinions regarding Manuskihar young man from Yudan-Yim, Dastur regarding Pars and Kirman, An effective
PAHLAVI Messages. Part I. EW West (1880) SBE 5. Oxford: Clarendon. This and further volumes translate thriving theological and legal texts (given that known about 1880s) of Zoroastrianism, believed so you can result from Avestan texts now-lost. Translator commentary towards of many difficulties and uncertainties regarding his works. Notes below are really tentative. Bundahis (or even the Fresh Creation). ch. XV: 1-5 (transl. pp. 52-54), manufacturing facts, earliest man and you can first lady, and you may a forest “whoever fruit was the newest ten types of man” – with notice so you can XV: 29 (pp. 59-60) where footnote 6 covers ten designs of ‘monsters’, remembering stories off uncommon events in the India. Mention and additionally racial distinction inside the ch. XXIII: 1-dos (p. 87), today grossly unpleasant. Shayast Los angeles-Shayast (or perhaps the Proper and you may Poor). ch. II: 97, fnt.5 (p. 270), meanings of ‘armest’, and ‘lame, crippled, immobility’. V: 1-2 (pp. 290-91) suggests amounts regarding kids’ obligations to have completely wrong chatter during prayer go out: around 5 years, zero blame; off five in order to 7, e into the father; seven so you’re able to fifteen, greater number of youth’s obligations. V: seven (pp. 292-93) reasons deaf and dumb person who never build correct a reaction to prayers. VI: 1-dos, “Brand new deaf and dumb and you will helpless” (‘armest’: footnote 2 brings likely definition here, “an idiot, otherwise nuts person”), even in the event regarding right behaviour and you can spirits, “are struggling to starting good functions”. X: thirty five (p. 332), a lady is complement certain priestly duties certainly female; footnote 6 cites Avestan passage where “one woman who isn’t gГјzel Dominikliler karД±sД± feeble-minded” can create specific priestly obligations for pupils.
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PAHLAVI Messages. Part II. New Dadistan-we Dinik while the Epistles from Manuskihar, transl. EW West (1882) SBE 18. Oxford: Clarendon. D. 881). ch. LXII: 4, on heredity, appears to recommend that good child (otherwise their wife) “that is blind both in vision, otherwise crippled [armest – select previous annotation] in both base, or maimed in their hands” get double the latest express out of a ready-bodied son, a type of confident discrimination presumably on the basis of you desire. Epistles out of Manuskihar. Epistle II, ch. I: 13 (p. 329), ref. so you’re able to “Zaratust new clubfooted (apafrobd)”. Footnote dos suggests a current people named Z., “who’d endeavoured so you’re able to cover this new deformity one to disqualified your” in the large priesthood. See along with Inclusion (p. xxvi). Appendix. III, into meaning of Khvetuk-Das, ‘next-of-kin marriage’. p. 407 revealing dangers of divorce, states “vice and you may scam and also the misery of deformity” just like the defects that may covertly getting related to a guy.
PAHLAVI Messages. Part III. Dina-we Mainog-we Khirad; Sikand-Gumanik Vigar; Unfortunate Dar, transl. EW West (1885) SBE 24. Oxford: Clarendon. Dina-i Mainog-we Khirad (or Viewpoints of your Heart of Skills). Ch. XV: 1-six and you may footnote 2 (p. 42), relates to “the newest poorest and most remote (armesttum) person” (get a hold of before annotation on the ‘armest’) just who holds honesty in the think, keyword and you may action, gets an excellent really works imputed so you’re able to your though struggling to in reality performing such works. Ch. XXVI: 4-six, (p. 56), the new blind individual that has attained studying and insights “is to be regarded as sound-eyed”. XXXVII: thirty-six (p. 75), blessedness of a single “whom brings lodging holiday accommodation toward ill and secluded [‘armest’] and investors”. Sikand-Gumanik Vigar (and/or Doubt-Dispelling Need). V: 63-64 (p. 144), if a close look, ear, nostrils, limb etcetera try disabled, one of many most other organ is not any substitute. X: 64 (p. 170), regard to “guidelines body language” certainly ways Zoroaster preached and you will confident King Gustasp. XII: 64-70 (p. 207), blindness data which have darkness, ignorance etc in the a summary of “demoniacal distinct features”. Sad Dar of Hundred Victims. Ch. 326-27), penalties to possess thieves is amputation from ear and you can (at the 3rd offense) from right-hand, in addition to a fine and you will jail sentence.