Dina-we Mainog-we Khirad (otherwise Opinions of your Soul off Knowledge)
PAHLAVI Messages. Part We. EW West (1880) SBE 5. Oxford: Clarendon. So it and further volumes change thriving theological and courtroom texts (because the recognized on the 1880s) regarding Zoroastrianism, assumed to help you be a consequence of Avestan texts now-lost. Translator reviews into of several problems and concerns out of his functions. Notes listed here are very tentative. Bundahis (or the New Creation). ch. XV: 1-5 (transl. pp. 52-54), manufacturing story, basic guy and you may first woman, and you may a forest “whose fruits try the latest 10 styles of guy” – with notice to XV: 29 (pp. 59-60) in which footnote 6 talks about 10 styles of ‘monsters’, remembering stories of unusual events in the Asia. Note as well as racial distinction in the ch. XXIII: 1-2 (p. 87), now really unpleasant. ch. II: 97, fnt.5 (p. 270), definitions out of ‘armest’, plus ‘lame, crippled, immobility’. V: 1-2 (pp. 290-91) indicates stages of kids’ duty to have wrong chatter throughout prayer time: around five years, zero fault; away from five to help you 7, age into the dad; seven to help you ten, higher amount of youth’s obligations. V: eight (pp. 292-93) excuses deaf-and-dumb individual that try not to build best response to prayers. VI: 1-dos, “New deaf and dumb and you will powerless” (‘armest’: footnote dos baДџlantД±ya bir gГ¶z atД±n provides probable meaning right here, “an idiot, or crazy person”), no matter if out of right habits and you may temper, “was incapable of performing a good works”. X: 35 (p. 332), a woman was complement certain priestly responsibilities certainly one of women; footnote six cites Avestan passageway where “one lady who is not feeble-minded” can do specific priestly commitments to possess people.
PAHLAVI Messages. Area II. This new Dadistan-i Dinik additionally the Epistles of Manuskihar, transl. EW Western (1882) SBE 18. Oxford: Clarendon. Dadistan-i Dinik (otherwise Religious Views of Manuskihar young buck from Yudan-Yim, Dastur off Pars and Kirman, An excellent.D. 881). ch. LXII: cuatro, on the heredity, appears to advise that a good young man (otherwise their spouse) “who is blind both in eyes, or crippled [armest – see early in the day annotation] both in base, or maimed both in his hand” obtains double the fresh share regarding a ready-bodied child, a form of self-confident discrimination allegedly based on you prefer. Epistles away from Manuskihar. Epistle II, ch. I: 13 (p. 329), ref. to “Zaratust brand new clubfooted (apafrobd)”. Footnote 2 ways a current people named Z., “that has endeavoured so you’re able to cover the latest deformity that disqualified your” throughout the highest priesthood. Get a hold of and Inclusion (p. xxvi). Appendix. III, towards the meaning of Khvetuk-Das, ‘next-of-kin marriage’. p. 407 revealing dangers of split up, says “vice and you will ripoff therefore the heartache away from deformity” given that flaws which could covertly end up being related to a person.
Shayast Los angeles-Shayast (and/or Best and you will Incorrect)
PAHLAVI Texts. Area III. Dina-we Mainog-we Khirad; Sikand-Gumanik Vigar; Unfortunate Dar, transl. EW Western (1885) SBE 24. Oxford: Clarendon. Ch. XV: 1-6 and you may footnote dos (p. 42), refers to “the newest poorest and most secluded (armesttum) person” (see prior to annotation toward ‘armest’) just who keeps trustworthiness inside the imagine, word and you can action, get a great performs imputed to him even when struggling to actually undertaking particularly functions. Ch. XXVI: 4-six, (p. 56), the fresh new blind individual that enjoys achieved discovering and you may knowledge “is usually to be regarded as voice-eyed”. XXXVII: thirty-six (p. 75), blessedness of a single “just who provides accommodations accommodation with the ill and you can secluded [‘armest’] and you will investors”. Sikand-Gumanik Vigar (or even the Question-Dispelling Explanation). V: 63-64 (p. 144), if an eye, ear, nostrils, limb an such like is actually disabled, among most other organ isn’t any alternative. X: 64 (p. 170), reference to “guidelines gestures” certainly ways Zoroaster preached and you can sure King Gustasp. XII: 64-70 (p. 207), loss of sight figures having dark, ignorance an such like inside a summary of “demoniacal peculiarities”. Sad Dar of one’s Hundred or so Subjects. Ch. LXIV: 2-5 (pp. 326-27), penalties having theft are amputation out-of ear canal and you can (within third offence) away from right-hand, and an excellent and you may jail sentence.