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"Sacred Books of the East"

"
O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If a man shall throw on
the ground a bone of a dead dog, or of a dead man, as large as a finger
or as a rib, and if grease or marrow flow from it on to the ground, what
penalty shall he pay?
Ahura Mazda answered:--
"Ninety stripes with the Aspahe-astra, ninety stripes with the
Sraosho-karana."
O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If a man shall throw on
the ground a bone of a dead dog, or of a dead man, as large as two
fingers or as two ribs, and if grease or marrow flow from it on to the
ground, what penalty shall he pay?
Ahura Mazda answered:--
"He is a Peshotanu: two hundred stripes with the Aspahe-astra, two
hundred stripes with the Sraosho-karana."
O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If a man shall throw on
the ground a bone of a dead dog, or of a dead man, as large as an
arm-bone or as a thigh-bone, and if grease or marrow flow from it on to
the ground, what penalty shall he pay?
Ahura Mazda answered:--
"Four hundred stripes with the Aspahe-astra, four hundred stripes with
the Sraosho-karana."
O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If a man shall throw on
the ground a bone of a dead dog, or of a dead man, as large as a man's
skull, and if grease or marrow flow from it on to the ground, what
penalty shall he pay?
Ahura Mazda answered:--
"Six hundred stripes with the Aspahe-astra, six hundred stripes with the
Sraosho-karana.


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