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one puts away the dress from the infant, and gives it to the mother till it has fed on the milk, and then it is proper to give it to other persons. 12. It is pure, but when the mother washes her head she also washes the head of the infant.
13. And it is necessary for a menstruous woman that she should not pass by the end of? anything ceremonially washed, for, if it be a thousand cubits (gaz) in length, she makes the whole of it polluted, and it becomes unclean. 14. With any one who holds a sacred-twig stands she should not speak a word; and if a priest holds the sacred twigs in his hand, and a menstruous woman speaks some (ba'hzê) words from afar, or he walks within three steps of a menstruous woman, she makes it unclean.
CHAPTER LXIX. 1. The sixty-ninth subject is this, that it is not proper that sunshine should fall on a fire, for, every time that sunshine falls upon a fire®, it is a' sin. 2. If thou expose a fire to the sun it is a sin of three
1 Lp, B29 have ' it is also requisite to wash.'
B29 has pass a look over.' 3 This consists of two metal tripods with crescent-shaped tops, to support the small faggot of sacred twigs or wires that are bound together by a girdle of narrow strips of a date-palm leaflet; the girdle being tied on the faggot in the same manner as that on the waist of a Parsi (see Sls. III, 32 n). The sacred twigs must always be present at ceremonies, sometimes held in the hand of the officiating priest, and sometimes lying on their stand.
4 B29 has and if she speaks words with him.' * B29 has it becomes.' • B29 omits these eight words. ? B29 has 'much.'
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| SR No. | 007677 |
| Book Title | Saddharma Pundarika |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | H Kern |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1884 |
| Total Pages | 2546 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 46 MB |