A Peshotanu, meaning one who pays with his body, according to Avestan terminology, is a person who had either been condemned to or previously subjected to two hundred stripes with the Aspahe-astra and the Sraosho-karana. Two hundred flogs with a whip was a capital punishment in Ancient Persia next only to death. A Peshotanu was also designated margarzan or "worthy of death".
References
edit- Darmesteter, James (1880). The Sacred Books of the East, Vol 4: The Zend Avesta, Part I:The Vendidad. Oxford University Press.