Dadistan-i Dinik (or Spiritual Views away from Manuskihar son of Yudan-Yim, Dastur from Pars and you may Kirman, A
PAHLAVI Texts. Region I. EW Western (1880) SBE 5. Oxford: Clarendon. That it and extra amounts change thriving theological and you will courtroom messages (as the recognized on the 1880s) of Zoroastrianism, assumed in order to be a consequence of Avestan messages now-lost. Translator responses into the of many difficulties and you will uncertainties regarding their works. Notes listed here are really tentative. Bundahis (or perhaps the Amazing Manufacturing). ch. XV: 1-5 (transl. pp. 52-54), development tale, basic guy and you may first woman, and you will a forest “whoever fresh fruit is actually the fresh 10 varieties of people” – with mention to help you XV: 29 (pp. 59-60) in which footnote 6 discusses 10 designs of ‘monsters’, recalling tales off uncommon events during the India. Mention and racial distinction inside the ch. XXIII: 1-2 (p. 87), now grossly offending. Shayast La-Shayast (or the Right and Improper). ch. II: 97, fnt.5 (p. 270), definitions of ‘armest’, and ‘lame, crippled, immobility’. V: 1-dos (pp. 290-91) ways stages off youngsters’ duty for completely wrong chatter throughout the prayer date: around 5 years, no fault; off four so you can seven, elizabeth on the dad; 7 so you’re able to ten, higher number of youth’s responsibility. V: 7 (pp. 292-93) reasons deaf-and-dumb person who cannot make best response to prayers. VI: 1-2, “Brand new deaf-and-dumb and you may powerless” (‘armest’: footnote 2 brings probable definition right here, “an idiot, otherwise insane individual”), even in the event off best behavior and you can aura, “is unable to doing a great performs”. X: thirty five (p. 332), a female was fit for particular priestly responsibilities one of female; footnote 6 alludes to Avestan passageway where “any woman who is not feeble-minded” can do particular priestly commitments to own children.
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PAHLAVI Texts. Part II. The newest Dadistan-i Dinik and the Epistles off Manuskihar, transl. EW Western (1882) SBE 18. Oxford: Clarendon. D. 881). ch. LXII: cuatro, on heredity, generally seems to advise that good young man (or his spouse) “who’s blind in both eyes, or crippled [armest – come across previous annotation] both in legs, or maimed both in his give” get double new show away from an in a position-bodied child, a kind of positive discrimination allegedly on such basis as you want. Epistles out-of Manuskihar. Epistle II, ch. I: 13 (p. 329), ref. silversingles phone number so you can “Zaratust the newest clubfooted (apafrobd)”. Footnote 2 suggests a current person named Z., “who’d endeavoured in order to hide this new deformity you to definitely disqualified your” on the highest priesthood. Come across including Inclusion (p. xxvi). Appendix. III, with the meaning of Khvetuk-Das, ‘next-of-kin marriage’. p. 407 sharing risks of splitting up, says “vice and you will fraud and also the heartache off deformity” since the problems that may privately feel attributed to a guy.
PAHLAVI Texts. Area III. Dina-i Mainog-we Khirad; Sikand-Gumanik Vigar; Sad Dar, transl. EW Western (1885) SBE 24. Oxford: Clarendon. Dina-i Mainog-we Khirad (otherwise Opinions of Spirit of Information). Ch. XV: 1-six and you may footnote dos (p. 42), relates to “the fresh poorest and most secluded (armesttum) person” (come across earlier annotation on ‘armest’) who preserves trustworthiness inside envision, term and action, gets a works imputed so you’re able to him regardless of if not able to in fact carrying out for example functions. Ch. XXVI: 4-6, (p. 56), this new blind person that enjoys achieved discovering and you may expertise “is going to be regarded as sound-eyed”. XXXVII: 36 (p. 75), blessedness of a single “just who will bring hotels accommodation into the unwell and secluded [‘armest’] and you will investors”. Sikand-Gumanik Vigar (or perhaps the Question-Dispelling Reason). V: 63-64 (p. 144), if an eye fixed, ear canal, nose, limb etc is actually handicapped, among the many most other organ is not any substitute. X: 64 (p. 170), mention of the “guidelines body language” certainly one of ways that Zoroaster preached and you will confident King Gustasp. XII: 64-70 (p. 207), blindness rates having darkness, ignorance an such like in a summary of “demoniacal peculiarities”. Unfortunate Dar of your own Hundred Subjects. Ch. 326-27), penalties getting theft become amputation away from ear and you will (on 3rd offence) out of right-hand, also an excellent and you can prison phrase.