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Chapter LXXXVI

1.The eighty-sixth subject is this, that it is not proper to kill a beaver; 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 as a great sin for the killer; and, as to every one who kills a beaver, the source of his seed becomes exhausted.

350:4 Literally ‘a water dog.’

350:5 B29 has ‘decreed.’

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.