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EPISTLE III.
TO ALL OF THE GOOD RELIGION IN IRÂN.
In the name of the sacred beings. A copy of the notification (vishadako) of his priestly lordship Mânùskihar, son of Yadân-Yim, regarding the grievous sinfulness of assuming the propriety of washing for fifteen times.
In the name of the sacred beings. 1. It has come unto the ears (vasam manisno) of me, Mânûskthar, son of Yadan-Yim, pontiff (rad) of Pars and Kirmån ", that, in some quarters of the country of Irân, they whose chance happens to be so much ? pollution, such as is decreed unto so much washing of the customary parts (pisako), always wash themselves fifteen times with bull's urine and once with water, consider themselves as clean", and go to water, fire; and ceremonial ablution, the ablution
1 See Dd. XCIV, 13.
* Reading håvan; but it may be pollution of the spiritual life (ahvo),' though this is hardly possible in the next phrase, where the same word occurs.
. By confounding the preliminary washing appointed in Vend. VIII, 279 with the final washing appointed in Vend. VIII, 299 (see App. V, and compare Ep. II, iii, 2, ix, 2).
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