The new Bundahis, Bahman Yast, and you can Shayast La-Shayast, transl
Dina-we Mainog-we Khirad (or Feedback of Spirit of Facts)
PAHLAVI Texts. Part We. EW West (1880) SBE 5. Oxford: Clarendon. Which and further volumes change enduring theological and court messages (since identified about 1880s) of Zoroastrianism, presumed so you’re able to be a consequence of Avestan texts now lost. Translator comments toward of several problems and you can concerns away from their functions. Notes below are very tentative. Bundahis (or the Amazing Design). ch. XV: 1-5 (transl. pp. 52-54), design tale, earliest people and you will earliest lady, and a forest “whose fruits try the 10 types of man” – that have note in order to XV: 30 (pp. 59-60) in which footnote 6 talks about 10 designs of ‘monsters’, recalling legends out of uncommon racing in India. Mention including racial differentiation into the ch. XXIII: 1-dos (p. 87), today grossly unpleasant. ch. II: 97, fnt.5 (p. 270), significance out-of ‘armest’, together with ‘lame, crippled, immobility’. V: 1-2 (pp. 290-91) implies grade away from children’s responsibility getting wrong chatter during prayer day: to 5 years, no fault; out-of five to help you 7, age toward dad; 7 to fifteen, greater number of youth’s obligation. V: 7 (pp. 292-93) excuses deaf-and-dumb person that you should never generate proper response to prayers. VI: 1-dos, “The fresh deaf-and-dumb and you will helpless” (‘armest’: footnote dos brings possible meaning here, “a keen idiot, or wild individual”), in the event off right actions and you can spirits, “is unable to creating a great works”. X: 35 (p. 332), a woman are fit for certain priestly duties certainly feminine; footnote 6 alludes to Avestan passing in which “people lady who’s not feeble-minded” can do some priestly obligations to own youngsters.
PAHLAVI Messages. Part II. The new Dadistan-we Dinik plus the Epistles out of Manuskihar, transl. EW West (1882) SBE 18. Oxford: Clarendon. Dadistan-we Dinik (or Religious Feedback of Manuskihar young buck from Yudan-Yim, Dastur of Pars and Kirman, A great.D. 881). ch. LXII: 4, towards the heredity, appears to suggest that good child (or their spouse) “that is blind both in attention, or crippled [armest – find previous annotation] in both base, otherwise maimed in both his hands” receives double the newest show from a ready-bodied young man, a form of self-confident discrimination allegedly on such basis as need. Epistles from Manuskihar. Epistle II, ch. I: 13 (p. 329), ref. to “Zaratust the latest clubfooted (apafrobd)”. Footnote dos means a recent individual entitled Z., “who’d endeavoured so you can hide the deformity that disqualified your” in the high priesthood. Д°sveççe kadД±nlarla tanД±ЕџД±n Pick plus Addition (p. xxvi). Appendix. III, on the meaning of Khvetuk-Das, ‘next-of-kin marriage’. p. 407 revealing dangers of split up, states “vice and you will scam together with agony away from deformity” due to the fact defects that could covertly feel associated with men.
Shayast Los angeles-Shayast (or perhaps the Best and you may Poor)
PAHLAVI Texts. Part III. Dina-i Mainog-i Khirad; Sikand-Gumanik Vigar; Sad Dar, transl. EW Western (1885) SBE 24. Oxford: Clarendon. Ch. XV: 1-six and you may footnote dos (p. 42), relates to “the newest poorest and most secluded (armesttum) person” (come across prior to annotation into the ‘armest’) which maintains honesty for the envision, phrase and you may deed, are certain to get a good really works imputed to him no matter if incapable of indeed undertaking such functions. Ch. XXVI: 4-six, (p. 56), brand new blind individual that has actually achieved reading and you will information “is going to be considered as sound-eyed”. XXXVII: 36 (p. 75), blessedness of just one “exactly who will bring rooms rental on unwell and you can remote [‘armest’] and you can people”. Sikand-Gumanik Vigar (or the Doubt-Dispelling Reasons). V: 63-64 (p. 144), if a watch, ear, nostrils, limb etcetera is handicapped, among the many most other organ is not any alternative. X: 64 (p. 170), mention of “guidelines body gestures” certainly one of ways that Zoroaster preached and you can sure Queen Gustasp. XII: 64-70 (p. 207), blindness rates that have darkness, lack of knowledge an such like into the a list of “demoniacal distinct features”. Unfortunate Dar of one’s Hundred or so Subjects. Ch. LXIV: 2-5 (pp. 326-27), punishment for theft include amputation out of ear canal and you will (at third offense) out-of right-hand, along with a fine and you will prison sentence.