Dadistan-we Dinik (or Spiritual Views away from Manuskihar child from Yudan-Yim, Dastur away from Pars and you can Kirman, A beneficial
PAHLAVI Messages. Area I. EW Western (1880) SBE 5. Oxford: Clarendon. So it and additional volumes convert thriving theological and you can judge messages (because known regarding the 1880s) of Zoroastrianism, believed in order to derive from Avestan messages now lost. Translator opinions for the many dilemmas and you may uncertainties of their work. Notes listed here are very tentative. Bundahis (or the Brand spanking new Design). ch. XV: 1-5 (transl. pp. 52-54), production story, earliest man and you will basic lady, and you can a forest “whose good fresh fruit try the new 10 designs of guy” – having notice in order to XV: 30 (pp. 59-60) in which footnote 6 talks about 10 styles of ‘monsters’, recalling stories of strange events during the India. Notice as well as racial distinction in ch. XXIII: 1-2 (p. 87), now grossly unpleasant. Shayast Los angeles-Shayast (or the Correct and you may Poor). ch. II: 97, fnt.5 (p. 270), definitions of ‘armest’, as well as ‘lame, crippled, immobility’. V: 1-dos (pp. 290-91) indicates amount regarding youngsters’ duty to own wrong chatter throughout the prayer big date: doing 5 years, no blame; off four so you’re able to eight, age towards the father; seven in order to fifteen, greater amount of youth’s responsibility. V: eight (pp. 292-93) reasons deaf and dumb person that usually do not make proper response to prayers. VI: 1-dos, “New deaf-and-dumb and you may powerless” (‘armest’: footnote dos gets likely meaning right here, “an idiot, or insane individual”), regardless if regarding right behaviour and you will mood, “is struggling to carrying out an effective functions”. X: thirty five (p. 332), a lady is actually complement some priestly requirements certainly one of women; footnote 6 cites Avestan passage where “one lady who isn’t feeble-minded” can perform some priestly requirements to have pupils.
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PAHLAVI Messages. Part II. The fresh Dadistan-i Dinik while the Epistles out of Manuskihar, transl. EW West (1882) SBE 18. Oxford: Clarendon. D. 881). ch. LXII: 4, into the inheritance, appears to suggest that a beneficial young man (otherwise their partner) “who’s blind in both sight, or crippled [armest – see previous annotation] in both ft, otherwise maimed in his give” get twice the new show away from an in a position-bodied son, a form of self-confident discrimination allegedly on such basis as you need. Epistles away from Manuskihar. Epistle II, ch. I: 13 (p. 329), ref. to help you “Zaratust new clubfooted (apafrobd)”. Footnote 2 indicates a recently available people titled Z., “who’d endeavoured to help you conceal the new deformity that disqualified your” regarding the higher priesthood. Find also Inclusion (p. xxvi). Appendix. III, towards the concept of Khvetuk-Das, ‘next-of-kin marriage’. p. 407 discussing risks of divorce or separation, states “vice and you may con plus the agony of deformity” because the problems which may secretly be associated with a guy.
PAHLAVI Texts. Part III. Dina-we Mainog-i Khirad; Sikand-Gumanik Vigar; Unfortunate Dar, transl. EW Western (1885) SBE 24. Oxford: Clarendon. Dina-we Mainog-we Khirad (or Views of Soul from Facts). Ch. XV: 1-6 and you may footnote dos (p. 42), identifies “new poorest and most secluded (armesttum) person” (look for prior to annotation on the ‘armest’) which retains trustworthiness inside thought, term and deed, will receive a good performs imputed to help you him though incapable of indeed creating eg really works. Ch. XXVI: 4-6, (p. 56), new blind person that possess hit discovering and information “is usually to be considered as sound-eyed”. XXXVII: thirty six (p. 75), blessedness of just one “which provides hotels rooms towards sick and remote [‘armest’] and you will buyers”. Sikand-Gumanik Vigar (or even the Doubt-Dispelling Reason). V: 63-64 (p. 144), in the event that an eye fixed, ear canal, nostrils, limb etc is actually handicapped, one of the other organ isn’t any replacement. X: 64 (p. 170), mention of “guidelines body language” certainly one of ways Zoroaster preached and you can sure King Gustasp. XII: 64-70 (p. 207), blindness figures which have darkness, ignorance etc within the a list of “demoniacal peculiarities”. Unfortunate Dar of one’s Hundred or so Sufferers. Ch. 326-27), punishment having theft is amputation out of ear and you may (on third offense) from right hand, in addition to a superb and prison sentence.