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FARGARD XVI.
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three dogs, grows big with young, and the milk comes to her teats and she brings forth a young one that is born from several dogs.'
50 (135). If a man smite a bitch who has been covered by three dogs, and who has already milk, and who shall bring forth a young one born from several dogs, what is the penalty that he shall pay?
51 (137). Ahura Mazda answered: 'Seven hundred stripes with the Aspahê-astra, seven hundred stripes with the Sraoshô-karana.'
FARGARD XVI.
I(1-7). On the uncleanness of women during their sickness. II (8-12). What is to be done if that state lasts too long.
III (13–18). Sundry laws relating to the same matter. See Introd. V, 12.
1. O Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! If there be in the house of a worshipper of Mazda a woman who has the whites or sees blood, what shall the worshippers of Mazda do ?
2 (3). Ahura Mazda answered: “They shall clear the way of the wood there, both plants and trees 2 ; they shall strew dry dust on the grounds; and they shall isolate a half, or a third, or a fourth, or a fifth
The way to the Dashtânistân. . Lest the wood shall be touched and defiled by the woman on her way to the Dashtanistån.
Lest the earth shall be touched and defiled by her. Cf. Farg. IX, 11.
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