Dadistan-we Dinik (otherwise Spiritual Viewpoints of Manuskihar young man regarding Yudan-Yim, Dastur of Pars and you may Kirman, An excellent
PAHLAVI Texts. Region We. EW West (1880) SBE 5. Oxford: Clarendon. This and additional amounts translate thriving theological and you may judge messages (because the understood in the 1880s) regarding Zoroastrianism, thought so you’re able to result of Avestan messages now lost. Translator comments into of many troubles and you may concerns away from their performs. Notes below are extremely tentative. Bundahis (or the Totally new Creation). ch. XV: 1-5 (transl. pp. 52-54), creation facts, basic guy and first lady, and a forest “whose fresh fruit was the latest 10 designs of people” – with notice so you can XV: 29 (pp. 59-60) where footnote 6 discusses ten styles of ‘monsters’, recalling tales out of uncommon events inside Asia. Note as well as racial distinction from inside the ch. XXIII: 1-2 (p. 87), now grossly offensive. Shayast La-Shayast (or perhaps the Correct and you may Improper). ch. II: 97, fnt.5 (p. 270), significance regarding ‘armest’, also ‘lame, crippled, immobility’. V: 1-2 (pp. 290-91) implies stages out-of kids’ duty having completely wrong chatter throughout prayer go out: around five years, no fault; out-of five in order to 7, elizabeth towards father; seven so you can ten, higher amount of youth’s obligations. V: 7 (pp. 292-93) excuses deaf and dumb person that never generate best response to prayers. VI: 1-dos, “The newest deaf and dumb and powerless” (‘armest’: footnote dos brings probable meaning right here, “a keen idiot, otherwise wild people”), no matter if out-of proper habits and you will aura, “are struggling to starting a works”. X: 35 (p. 332), a woman are complement particular priestly duties certainly one of women; footnote 6 cites Avestan passing where “any lady who is not feeble-minded” can do some priestly requirements to own pupils.
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PAHLAVI Texts. Region II. The latest Dadistan-i Dinik and the Epistles of Manuskihar, transl. EW West (1882) SBE 18. Oxford: Clarendon. D. 881). ch. LXII: cuatro, toward genetics, generally seems to suggest that a good child (otherwise their spouse) “who’s blind in both sight, otherwise crippled [armest – select past annotation] both in feet, otherwise maimed in both his hand” get double brand new show out of an in a position-bodied young buck, a variety of positive discrimination presumably on such basis as you need. Epistles out of Manuskihar. Epistle II, ch. I: thirteen (p. 329), ref. so you’re able to “Zaratust the latest clubfooted (apafrobd)”. Footnote 2 means a recently available people called Z., “who’d endeavoured to help you conceal this new deformity that disqualified him” regarding the highest priesthood. Find along with Addition (p. xxvi). Appendix. III, for the meaning of Khvetuk-Das, ‘next-of-kin marriage’. p. 407 revealing risks of separation, mentions “vice and you can scam as well as the heartache off deformity” given that problems that could privately be caused by one.
PAHLAVI Texts. Part III. Dina-i Mainog-i Khirad; Sikand-Gumanik Vigar; Unfortunate Dar, transl. EW West (1885) SBE 24. Oxford: Clarendon. Dina-i Mainog-we Khirad (otherwise Opinions of your Spirit regarding Expertise). Ch. XV: 1-6 and you will footnote dos (p. 42), makes reference to “the new poorest and more than remote (armesttum) person” (get a hold of before annotation into ‘armest’) which holds honesty in thought, word and you will deed, will have a good performs imputed in order to him though not able to indeed doing for example works. Ch. XXVI: 4-six, (p. 56), the new blind person who provides reached understanding and knowledge “is usually to be considered as voice-eyed”. XXXVII: thirty six (p. 75), blessedness of just one “just who brings rooms housing towards the unwell and you may remote [‘armest’] and dealers”. Sikand-Gumanik Vigar (or the Question-Dispelling Need). V: 63-64 (p. 144), if a watch, ear canal, nose, limb etc is actually handicapped, one of many most other body organ is no substitute. X: 64 (p. 170), reference to “guide body language” one of ways Zoroaster preached and you can convinced King Gustasp. XII: 64-70 (p. 207), blindness numbers with dark, lack of knowledge an such like within the a summary of “demoniacal distinct features”. Unfortunate Dar of your Hundred Sufferers. Ch. 326-27), punishment having thieves tend to be amputation from ear canal and (within 3rd offence) out-of right-hand, together with a superb and you may prison sentence.
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