The fresh new Bundahis, Bahman Yast, and you will Shayast La-Shayast, transl

Dina-we Mainog-i Khirad (or Opinions of your own Heart off Understanding)

PAHLAVI Texts. Area I. EW West (1880) SBE 5. Oxford: Clarendon. Which and additional amounts convert enduring theological and you may legal messages (just like the identified from the 1880s) away from Zoroastrianism, assumed so you’re able to derive from Avestan texts now-lost. Translator feedback on of many troubles and you can concerns of their work. Cards below are most tentative. Bundahis (or perhaps the Amazing Creation). ch. XV: 1-5 (transl. pp. 52-54), design story, earliest man and you will first lady, and you may a tree “whoever fresh fruit is actually the brand new ten styles of people” – which have notice to help you XV: 29 (pp. 59-60) in which footnote 6 discusses ten designs of ‘monsters’, remembering stories away from unusual events in Asia. Mention and racial distinction into the ch. XXIII: 1-dos (p. 87), now really offending. ch. II: 97, fnt.5 (p. 270), definitions from ‘armest’, together with ‘lame, crippled, immobility’. V: 1-2 (pp. 290-91) suggests degrees away from children’s duty to own completely wrong chatter throughout the prayer go out: up to five years, no fault; from five so you’re able to 7, elizabeth with the father; seven to help you fifteen, greater amount of youth’s duty. V: 7 (pp. 292-93) excuses deaf-and-dumb person who you should never build best reaction to prayers. VI: 1-2, “New deaf-and-dumb and you may powerless” (‘armest’: footnote 2 gets likely definition right here, “an idiot, otherwise wild person”), though out-of correct conduct and you may state of mind, “was not able to creating an excellent performs”. X: thirty-five (p. 332), a woman try fit for some priestly requirements certainly one of female; footnote 6 alludes to Avestan passageway in which “people woman who is not feeble-minded” can do specific priestly duties getting students.

PAHLAVI Texts. Part II. The fresh new Dadistan-we Dinik together with Epistles from Manuskihar, transl. EW West (1882) SBE 18. Oxford: Clarendon. Dadistan-i Dinik (or Spiritual Views out of Manuskihar son out-of Yudan-Yim, Dastur out of Pars and you will Kirman, Varanasi in India women A great.D. 881). ch. LXII: 4, toward heredity, appears to suggest that an excellent son (or their partner) “who is blind both in vision, or crippled [armest – pick early in the day annotation] in both base, otherwise maimed in their hands” obtains twice the brand new show regarding an able-bodied young buck, a kind of self-confident discrimination allegedly based on need. Epistles regarding Manuskihar. Epistle II, ch. I: 13 (p. 329), ref. in order to “Zaratust the latest clubfooted (apafrobd)”. Footnote 2 means a recently available individual titled Z., “that has endeavoured so you’re able to cover the fresh new deformity one to disqualified your” from the higher priesthood. Come across together with Introduction (p. xxvi). Appendix. III, on the meaning of Khvetuk-Das, ‘next-of-kin marriage’. p. 407 sharing risks of breakup, states “vice and you may ripoff additionally the misery regarding deformity” as the faults which may privately become associated with men.

Shayast Los angeles-Shayast (and/or Best and you will Inappropriate)

PAHLAVI Messages. Part III. Dina-we Mainog-we Khirad; Sikand-Gumanik Vigar; Sad Dar, transl. EW Western (1885) SBE 24. Oxford: Clarendon. Ch. XV: 1-6 and footnote dos (p. 42), relates to “the poorest and most secluded (armesttum) person” (look for before annotation for the ‘armest’) whom holds trustworthiness into the imagine, keyword and you may action, will have a good work imputed to your although incapable of in reality creating such as work. Ch. XXVI: 4-6, (p. 56), the blind person who features attained discovering and you may expertise “will be considered as sound-eyed”. XXXVII: thirty six (p. 75), blessedness of just one “exactly who brings hotels hotel into the unwell and you can secluded [‘armest’] and dealers”. Sikand-Gumanik Vigar (or the Doubt-Dispelling Explanation). V: 63-64 (p. 144), if an eye, ear, nostrils, limb an such like was handicapped, one of several almost every other organ is not any substitute. X: 64 (p. 170), mention of “guide body gestures” certainly one of ways Zoroaster preached and you will sure King Gustasp. XII: 64-70 (p. 207), blindness rates which have dark, lack of knowledge etcetera in the a listing of “demoniacal peculiarities”. Sad Dar of your Hundred Victims. Ch. LXIV: 2-5 (pp. 326-27), punishment having thieves were amputation off ear and you can (on 3rd offense) from right-hand, and a superb and you may jail phrase.