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CHAPTER LXXVI, 5-LXXVIII, 1.
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manner that, if the duty of mid-dayl prayer has occurred, they extend till the mid-day prayer itself, and she is to pass over one other hour and it is then proper to swallow water. 4. After that, till the lapse of forty days, she is to sit apart again, and, afterwards, to undergo the Bareshnům ceremony.
5. On the infant's becoming a four-months' child, whenever it is still-born it is a dead body 3, for the reason that so long as it does not reach the fourth month life does not come to it. 6. And if after three months this affair occurs, one is to exercise great caution (ihtiyât) and to insist strictly on this matter.
7. For our religion has reiterated on this matter that, if one be polluted and do not keep himself pure, so long as he is living he never becomes clean from that pollution. 8. That, if he wash his head ten thousand times in ceremonial ablution, he certainly does not any way become pure from it4. 9. Because this pollution is not from without; it is from within every bone and vein and tendon; and water makes clean only anything that is on the skin. 10. Impurity which is in the bones, except through the liquid consecrated by the religious formula', does not otherwise become clean.
CHAPTER LXXVIII. 1. The seventy-eighth subject is this, that in every habitation where any one departs, passing away from
1 Literally former, early. ? See Chap. XXXVI, 1 n.
9 And, therefore, to be treated with all the precautions necessary in dealing with a corpse to avoid the pollution alluded to in $8710. Hence the necessity of careful enquiry in doubtful cases, as recommended in $ 6. * B29 omits $ 8.
o See Chap. XXXVI, 7 n.
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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 |