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and the fatigued; and, the accoutrements being deposited, a warm bath prepared, and relaxation of the body effected, the reward of merit is given. 27. One has to search offenders, to bring restoratives for the unfatigued and the fatigued, to deliver the accoutrements back to the arsenal (gango), to allot the share of the hostage brought back to his own people, and also much else on the same subject.
CHAPTER XXVII.
Ganaba-sar-nigad Nask. 1. The fourth section is miscellaneous : about a warm bath being in a house of what kind, the position of security of the fireplace, the watchfulness to be upheld there, and whatever is on the same subject. 2. About the strength that a horse has to exert for the sake of the earth, and that which is to be exerted in that mode for the sake of fire. 3. About food and other matters which may be prepared with fire, and the security of the fire in like manner. 4. About fire which, even on the road, is
free from throwing away, bodily refuse !, and dead matter, and from the injury and harm owing thereto; the various safeguards of fire from being given to an infidel (ag-dênô) or a child ; the distance of the fire from a rivulet 8; the penalty for throwing it away, or other sin as regards it; and the
* See Chap. XIX, 3.
Any solid portion of a corpse, or carcase, of a human being, dog, or other animal.
Which might extinguish it and, thereby, render the person who had charge of the fire grievously sinful.
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