Dina-i Mainog-we Khirad (or Views of your own Spirit out of Understanding)
PAHLAVI Messages. Part I. EW West (1880) SBE 5. Oxford: Clarendon. It and extra amounts translate thriving theological and you will court messages (because identified regarding 1880s) off Zoroastrianism, believed so you can result from Avestan messages now-lost. Translator comments on many troubles and you will concerns out-of their functions. Notes listed here are most tentative. Bundahis (or even the Original Development). ch. XV: 1-5 (transl. pp. 52-54), development story, very first people and you may very first lady, and you may a tree “whoever fruits is actually the fresh 10 varieties of guy” – having note to XV: 31 (pp. 59-60) in which footnote 6 discusses 10 types of ‘monsters’, recalling stories from uncommon races when you look at the India. Mention and additionally racial distinction into the ch. XXIII: 1-2 (p. 87), now grossly unpleasant. ch. II: 97, fnt.5 (p. 270), significance out of ‘armest’, and additionally ‘lame, crippled, immobility’. V: 1-dos (pp. 290-91) suggests amounts off children’s responsibility for wrong chatter while in the prayer big date: up to five years, no fault; of five so you’re able to eight, elizabeth towards the father; 7 to help you fifteen, better quantity of youth’s obligation. V: eight (pp. 292-93) reasons deaf and dumb individual that never make correct reaction to prayers. VI: 1-dos, “The deaf and dumb and you may powerless” (‘armest’: footnote 2 provides likely meaning right here, “an idiot, or crazy person”), though out of best habits and you can mood, “try unable to doing a good works”. X: thirty five (p. 332), a female is actually fit for certain priestly duties among women; footnote 6 cites Avestan passageway in which “one woman who isn’t feeble-minded” is capable of doing certain priestly requirements to have youngsters.
PAHLAVI Texts. Part II. The fresh new Dadistan-we Dinik and also the Epistles out-of Manuskihar, transl. EW West (1882) SBE 18. Oxford: Clarendon. Dadistan-i Dinik (or Spiritual Opinions regarding Manuskihar young man off Yudan-Yim, Dastur regarding Pars and you can Kirman, An effective.D. 881). ch. LXII: cuatro, towards the inheritance, seems to suggest that a good young man (or his wife) “who’s blind both in vision, or crippled [armest – get a hold of earlier annotation] in both base, otherwise maimed in his hand” gets twice the newest display away from an able-bodied child, a kind of positive discrimination allegedly on the basis of you prefer. Epistles out of Manuskihar. Epistle II, ch. I: thirteen (p. 329), ref. to “Zaratust new clubfooted (apafrobd)”. Footnote dos implies a current people named Z., “who had endeavoured so you’re able to cover the deformity you to definitely disqualified him” throughout the high priesthood. Find as well as Inclusion (p. xxvi). Appendix. III, into the concept of Khvetuk-Das, ‘next-of-kin marriage’. p. 407 discussing dangers of divorce case, mentions “vice and you may scam plus the agony out of deformity” because the problems that may privately be caused by a guy.
Shayast La-Shayast (or even the Proper and you may Inappropriate)
PAHLAVI Texts. 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 you will footnote 2 (p. 42), identifies “the brand new poorest and more than secluded (armesttum) person” (select prior to annotation to the ‘armest’) just who preserves trustworthiness for the envision, word and you may deed, gets a beneficial work imputed so you can your even in the event struggling to indeed creating instance work. Ch. XXVI: 4-six, (p. 56), the brand new blind individual that enjoys achieved studying and you may wisdom “is going to be considered as sound-eyed”. XXXVII: thirty six (p. 75), blessedness of one “which brings rooms housing for the ill and you may secluded [‘armest’] and traders”. Sikand-Gumanik Vigar (or perhaps the Doubt-Dispelling Explanation). V: 63-64 (p. 144), in the event that a close look, ear canal, nostrils, Gunstig lenke limb etcetera try handicapped, one of many most other body organ isn’t any substitute. X: 64 (p. 170), mention of the “manual body language” certainly one of ways that Zoroaster preached and you can confident King Gustasp. XII: 64-70 (p. 207), blindness rates which have dark, ignorance etcetera into the a list of “demoniacal peculiarities”. Sad Dar of Hundred Sufferers. Ch. LXIV: 2-5 (pp. 326-27), penalties for thieves become amputation out-of ear canal and you can (on third offense) of right hand, in addition to a fine and jail phrase.