Dadistan-i Dinik (or Spiritual Viewpoints away from Manuskihar son out of Yudan-Yim, Dastur off Pars and you will Kirman, A beneficial
PAHLAVI Messages. Area I. EW West (1880) SBE 5. Oxford: Clarendon. This and further amounts translate surviving theological and you may court texts (because the known from the 1880s) of Zoroastrianism, thought to help you result from Avestan texts now lost. Translator opinions towards the of several problems and you will concerns away from their works. Notes here are extremely tentative. Bundahis (or even the Amazing Development). ch. XV: 1-5 (transl. pp. 52-54), design story, earliest people and you will basic lady, and a tree “whoever good fresh fruit try the fresh 10 types of people” – which have note in order to XV: 31 (pp. 59-60) in which footnote six talks about 10 styles of ‘monsters’, recalling stories out of uncommon racing when you look at the Asia. Notice including racial differentiation inside the ch. XXIII: 1-2 (p. 87), now really unpleasant. Shayast Los angeles-Shayast (or the Right and you will Inappropriate). ch. II: 97, fnt.5 (p. 270), meanings out-of ‘armest’, as well as ‘lame, crippled, immobility’. V: 1-2 (pp. 290-91) indicates degrees from youngsters’ obligations to own incorrect chatter during prayer date: to 5 years, no fault; from four so you’re able to seven, e into father; seven so you’re able to fifteen, better amount of youth’s responsibility. V: eight (pp. 292-93) reasons deaf-and-dumb person that cannot generate correct response to prayers. VI: 1-dos, “This new deaf-and-dumb and you can helpless” (‘armest’: footnote dos gets probable definition right here, “an idiot, or wild people”), although of correct behaviour and you will disposition, “was not able to doing good functions”. X: 35 (p. 332), a lady are fit for some priestly responsibilities one of female; footnote six alludes to Avestan passage where “people lady who isn’t feeble-minded” may do some priestly commitments for children.
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PAHLAVI Texts. Region II. The new Dadistan-i Dinik and Epistles out-of Manuskihar, transl. EW Western (1882) SBE 18. Oxford: Clarendon. D. 881). ch. LXII: cuatro, toward heredity, seems to suggest that a good son (otherwise his wife) “who is blind in eyes, otherwise crippled [armest – look for earlier annotation] in both ft, or maimed both in their give” obtains twice the new express out-of an able-bodied young buck, a form of positive discrimination presumably on such basis as need. Epistles regarding Manuskihar. Epistle II, ch. I: 13 (p. 329), ref. to help you “Zaratust the latest clubfooted (apafrobd)”. Footnote 2 means a recent individual titled Z., “who’d endeavoured in order to conceal the brand new deformity that disqualified him” in the highest priesthood. Find and Addition (p. xxvi). Appendix. III, to your meaning of Khvetuk-Das, ‘next-of-kin marriage’. p. 407 sharing dangers of split up, says “vice and you can fraud while the agony off deformity” since faults which could covertly end up being related to men.
PAHLAVI Messages. Region III. Dina-i Mainog-we Khirad; Sikand-Gumanik Vigar; Unfortunate Dar, transl. EW Western (1885) SBE 24. Oxford: Clarendon. Dina-i Mainog-we Khirad (otherwise Opinions of your own Soul out-of Understanding). Ch. XV: 1-six and you will footnote 2 (p. 42), identifies “the newest poorest and more than secluded (armesttum) person” (find before annotation toward ‘armest’) who keeps trustworthiness within the believe, keyword and deed, will receive a good work imputed so you’re able to him although incapable of actually creating including really works. Ch. XXVI: 4-six, (p. 56), this new blind person that keeps reached reading and you may skills “is usually to be considered as voice-eyed”. XXXVII: thirty six (p. 75), blessedness of just one “who will bring rooms hotel to your ill and you will remote [‘armest’] and you can people”. Sikand-Gumanik Vigar (and/or Question-Dispelling Reason). V: 63-64 (p. 144), when the a close look, ear, nostrils, limb an such like are handicapped, among the most other organ is not any replace. X: 64 (p. 170), reference to “guide body gestures” certainly one of ways in which Zoroaster preached and convinced King Gustasp. XII: 64-70 (p. 207), loss of sight figures that have dark, lack of knowledge etc during the a listing of “demoniacal peculiarities”. Unfortunate Dar of Hundred or so Victims. Ch. 326-27), penalties to possess thieves were amputation out of ear and you will (from the third offense) from right-hand, plus a fine and you can prison sentence.