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 the top joint of the little finger, and if grease or marrow flow from it on to the ground, what penalty shall he pay? Ahura Mazda answered:-- "Thirty stripes with the Aspahê-astra, thirty stripes with the Sraoshô-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 the top joint of the fore-finger, and if grease or marrow flow from it on to the ground, what penalty shall he pay? Ahura Mazda answered:-- "Fifty stripes with the Aspahê-astra, fifty stripes with the Sraoshô-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 the top joint of the middle finger, and if grease or marrow flow from it on to the ground, what penalty shall he pay? Ahura Mazda answered:-- "Seventy stripes with the Aspahê-astra, seventy stripes with the Sraoshô-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 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 Aspahê-astra, ninety stripes with the Sraoshô-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 Peshôtanu: two hundred stripes with the Aspahê-astra, two hundred stripes with the Sraoshô-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 Aspahê-astra, four hundred stripes with the Sraoshô-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 Aspahê-astra, six hundred stripes with the Sraoshô-karana." O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If a man shall throw on the ground the whole body of a dead dog, or of a dead man, and if grease or marrow flow from it on to the ground, what penalty shall he pay? Ahura Mazda answered:-- "A thousand stripes with the Aspahê-astra, a thousand stripes with the Sraoshô-karana."