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CHAPTER LXXIV, 2-LXXVI, 4.
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an inspection through every course and channel of the water, to ascertain whether there be dead matter therein, or not; and, after that, through the water in like manner. 2. If they be in the middle of it, when the water is within their cultivated land, and dead matter comes in sight, if it be possible to ward it off one wards it off, and if it be possible to divert the water one diverts it. 3. And if the water arrives with dead matter unawares, it is no sin for them. 4. But if no inspection of the stream and cultivated land be made, and the water arrives with dead matter, those people are polluted, and it is necessary to perform the Bareshnům ceremonya as regards their heads.
CHAPTER LXXVI. 1. The seventy-sixth subject is this, when a woman brings forth, it is necessary that she should not wash her head for twenty-one days, nor put her hand again on anything, nor walk on a terrace-roof, nor put her foot on a threshold in her habitation. 2. And after the twenty-one days, if she sees herself in such a state that she is able to wash her head, she washes her head. 3. And, after that, until the coming on of the fortieth day, it is requisite to abstain from the vicinity of a fire and anything that is woodens or earthen; it is also requisite to abstain from everything of her cooking and potboiling-. 4. Afterwards, when it is forty days, she is
1 B29 has when any one wishes to enter into participation of a cultivated field, it is first necessary to observe in every course.'
* See Chap. XXXVI, i n. 3 La 'has, B29 kôbîn; Lp has 'hûris, 'food.' * B29 omits these thirteen words.
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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 |