APeshotanu, meaningone who pays with his body, according toAvestan terminology, is a person who had either been condemned to or previously subjected to two hundred stripes with theAspahe-astra and theSraosho-karana. Two hundred flogs with a whip was acapital punishment inAncient Persia next only to death. A Peshotanu was also designatedmargarzan or "worthy of death".

• Darmesteter, James (1880).The Sacred Books of the East, Vol 4: The Zend Avesta, Part I:The Vendidad. Oxford University Press.

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