Superstition and Force / Essays on the Wager of Law, the Wager of Battle, the Ordeal, Torture

by Henry Charles Lea

[850] Firdusi, Shah-Nameh, XII. 4 (Mohl’s Translation, II. 188). Kai Kaoos was the grandfather and immediate predecessor of Cyrus.

[851] The Dabistan, Shea and Troyer’s translation, I. 219.

[852] Quoted from the Dinkard by Dr. Haug in Arda-Viraf, p. 145.

[853] Hyde Hist. vet. Persar. Relig. p. 280 (Ed. 1760). See also, Dabistan, I. 305-6.

[854] Bk. VII. st. 108.

[855] Atharva Veda II. 12 (Grill, Hundert Lieder des Atharva Veda, Tübingen, 1879, p. 16).—Khandogya-Upanishad. VI. 16 (Max Müller’s Translation, p. 108). In this latter passage there is a philosophical explanation attempted why a man who covers himself with truth is not burnt by the hot iron.

[856] Monier Williams, Indian Wisdom, 2d ed. p. 360.

[857] Man. Dharm. Sast. VIII. 114-16, 190.

[858] Institutes of Vishnu, IX.

[859] Institutes of Gautama, XIII. 1, 3, 23 (Bühler’s Translation).