The newest Bundahis, Bahman Yast, and Shayast La-Shayast, transl

Dina-i Mainog-we Khirad (or Opinions of Soul off Information)

PAHLAVI Texts. Area We. EW West (1880) SBE 5. Oxford: Clarendon. That it and extra quantities change thriving theological and courtroom texts (while the recognized regarding the 1880s) regarding Zoroastrianism, believed to be a consequence of Avestan texts now-lost. Translator remarks into the of numerous difficulties and you can concerns regarding their work. Notes listed here are most tentative. Bundahis (and/or Brand-new Creation). ch. XV: 1-5 (transl. pp. 52-54), development facts, very first guy and you will very first lady, and you can a forest “whoever fruit are the fresh ten types of guy” – which have notice to help you XV: 31 (pp. 59-60) in which footnote six talks about ten types of ‘monsters’, recalling stories away from unusual events inside the Asia. Note and racial differentiation inside ch. XXIII: 1-dos (p. 87), now really unpleasant. ch. II: 97, fnt.5 (p. 270), significance from ‘armest’, along with ‘lame, crippled, immobility’. V: 1-2 (pp. 290-91) ways level away from kids’ responsibility getting incorrect chatter through the prayer day: as much as 5 years, no blame; from five in order to eight, elizabeth to the dad; 7 to help you fifteen, greater level of youth’s responsibility. V: 7 (pp. 292-93) excuses deaf-and-dumb person that usually do not make correct response to prayers. VI: 1-dos, “The latest deaf and dumb and you can powerless” (‘armest’: footnote dos gives possible meaning right here, “an enthusiastic idiot, or wild people”), regardless of if out of proper behaviour and you can vibe, “is actually not able to doing a great really works”. X: thirty five (p. 332), a female was complement certain priestly obligations one of feminine; footnote 6 alludes to Avestan passageway where “people woman who’s not feeble-minded” can perform specific priestly commitments to have people.

PAHLAVI Texts. Region II. New Dadistan-we Dinik in addition to Epistles of Manuskihar, transl. EW West (1882) SBE 18. Oxford: Clarendon. Dadistan-i Dinik (otherwise Religious Feedback away from Manuskihar young man from Yudan-Yim, Dastur away from Pars and Kirman, A great.D. 881). ch. LXII: cuatro, for the inheritance, appears to suggest that a beneficial child (or their wife) “that is blind in both attention, otherwise crippled [armest – find earlier annotation] both in foot, otherwise maimed both in his give” obtains double brand new express out of an able-bodied young man, a type of positive discrimination presumably on the basis of you LГ¤hde would like. Epistles away from Manuskihar. Epistle II, ch. I: 13 (p. 329), ref. to “Zaratust the brand new clubfooted (apafrobd)”. Footnote 2 means a recently available person titled Z., “who’d endeavoured to hide the brand new deformity you to definitely disqualified your” from the higher priesthood. See along with Inclusion (p. xxvi). Appendix. III, toward concept of Khvetuk-Das, ‘next-of-kin marriage’. p. 407 discussing risks of divorce proceedings, says “vice and swindle together with misery from deformity” because the faults that could secretly feel associated with a person.

Shayast Los angeles-Shayast (or perhaps the Proper and you can Incorrect)

PAHLAVI Messages. Part III. Dina-we Mainog-we Khirad; Sikand-Gumanik Vigar; Unfortunate Dar, transl. EW West (1885) SBE 24. Oxford: Clarendon. Ch. XV: 1-six and you may footnote dos (p. 42), identifies “brand new poorest and more than remote (armesttum) person” (get a hold of earlier annotation into ‘armest’) just who holds honesty inside consider, term and you can action, gets a good really works imputed to help you your even in the event not able to indeed undertaking such as for example performs. Ch. XXVI: 4-six, (p. 56), the latest blind person who has hit learning and information “is usually to be considered as sound-eyed”. XXXVII: thirty-six (p. 75), blessedness of one “just who provides lodging housing with the unwell and you can secluded [‘armest’] and you can dealers”. Sikand-Gumanik Vigar (or perhaps the Question-Dispelling Explanation). V: 63-64 (p. 144), when the a close look, ear, nostrils, limb etcetera are disabled, one of the almost every other organ is not any replacement. X: 64 (p. 170), regard to “manual gestures” certainly one of ways Zoroaster preached and pretty sure Queen Gustasp. XII: 64-70 (p. 207), loss of sight numbers that have darkness, lack of knowledge an such like when you look at the a listing of “demoniacal peculiarities”. Sad Dar of the Hundred or so Victims. Ch. LXIV: 2-5 (pp. 326-27), punishment to own theft become amputation off ear canal and you can (at 3rd offense) off right-hand, along with a fine and you will jail phrase.