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has to inspect them for fear of dead matter having been there 1.
19. About death which is by reason of water or fire, and does not occur through the supremacy of water or fire, but is owing to the demons 2. 20. About the great advantage owing to rain, and connected with raining on dead matter and the bodily refuse of depositories for the dead". 21. About the greatness and goodness of the law opposed to the demons' for cleansing, as compared with other utterances 6.
22. About pollution owing to bodily contact (hamkerpakih) with a corpse, and to bodily contact with him who is in bodily contact with a corpse. 23. About the wicked villain who is an unrighteous apostate alive, and abstaining from association (avâkih) with him. 24. About how long is the time of pollution of a house in which a dog or human being passes away, the carrying away theretofore of anything going thereto, and the avoidance of it; the place into which any one goes out, the feeding, and other things in that house within three steps, and whatever is on the same subject. 25. About a woman whose child dies in the womb, and which becomes dead matter; and whatever is on the same subject 10.
1 Vend. V, 5-7; but the last clause refers to a Pahlavi commentary found only in the manuscripts.
2 Vend. V, 8, 9.
See Chap. XIX, 3.
The Vendîdâd itself, see § 1 n.
7 Vend. V, 27-34.
Vend. V, 15-20.
Vend. V, 22-25. Vend. V, 35-38.
⚫ Vend. V, 39-44 (W.), and commentary on Pahl. Vend. V, 134 (Sp.).
10 Vend. V, 45-56.
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