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Chapter LXXXVI
Chapter LXXXVI
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Chapter LXXXVI

CHAPTER LXXXVI.

1. The eighty-sixth subject is this, that it is not proper to kill a beaver 4; but, if they see it in any place, it is necessary to take it up and carry it to running water. 2. For, in the commentary of the Vendîdâd it is ranked 5 as a great sin for the killer 6; and, as to every one who kills a beaver, the source of his seed becomes exhausted.

Footnotes
  1. 350:4

    Literally 'a water dog.'

  2. 350:5

    B29 has 'decreed.'

  3. 350:6

    As shown by the excessive atonements prescribed in Vend. XIV, in default of which he is said to go to hell till the resurrection.

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